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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



ORTHODOXY 

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Christian Science 

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fJnti-Christ in 1900. 



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By REV. W. P. LflSSWELL, 

Editor of "Orthodoxy." 



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To the Brethren and Ministry 

of the Church-Militant, with all who desire to 

'Know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thon. 

hast sent," and the power of the Holy Ghost, 

this volume is dedicated, by 

The Author 



Christian Science is the huge cartoon on 
the page of the century; its scientific and 
religious garb but masks the 

ANTI-CHRIST IN 1900. 

It is a system of religious alchemy; the 
Boston mortar is the scientific crucible, 
where the alkahest is applied to the equal in- 
redients of heathen religions, pagan philoso- 
phies, and modern infidelity, that produces a 
transmutation, which its discoverer named 

"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE? 



PREFACE. 



It is with considerable diffidence that the author un- 
dertakes to invite the reading public to a comparison of 
Orthodoxy with "Christian Science," since able authors 
have put forth scholarly efforts to expose this religious 
anomaly. 

But having an experience both with the "Science," and 
in the Christian church, it is therefore hoped it will not be 
considered presumptuous to represent Orthodoxy vs. "Chris- 
tian Science." 

The discussion of the subject naturally involves both 
religion and therapeutics, and the indulgence of the 
reader is craved as he is led into the realm of mysticism 
and superstition, as well as true science and religion. 

These are the "latter times" whose coming was fore- 
told by Christ and his apostles. Isms, schisms, sects and 
so-called "sciences" with their "Lo here and lo there!" are 
but the fulfillment of scripture prophecy concerning "false 
prophets," "false Christs," "damnable heresies," "seducing 
spirits," "doctrines of devils," and "Anti-Christ." 

The design of this book is to assist in the overthrow ol 
sectarianism and fanaticism in the church, and ignorance 
and superstition out of it, thus encouraging science on the 
one hand, and assisting in the advancement of God's King- 
dom on the other. 

We have endeavored to be clear, concise, and correct, 
as well as careful, thorough, dispassionate; since we know 
well that in that temper only shall we arrive at truth. 

The best authors and ablest writers on the subject have 
been consulted. Quotations are indicated. 

Ministers and members of all orthodox churches, with 
all their adherents are earnestly solicited to help stay the 



progress of this mighty evil that is rapidly infecting the 
religious world. 

Believing the cause of God is suffering vastly from in- 
jury inflicted by "Christian Science" and hoping to be 
helpful to humanity, in a candid exposition of the false doc- 
trines of this new "sect," these lines are published. If in 
the hands of God, they may be instrumental in saving 
precious souls from fanaticism and leading them to a sav- 
ing faith in Jesus, it will be gracious compensation. 

The Author. 




CONTENTS. 



Chapter I. - - - - Introduction. 

"But speak thou the things which become sound 

doctrine.' Tit. 2:1. 

Chapter II. Black Art. 

"Their folly shall be manifest to all men." IL Tim 3:9. 

Chapter III. - - - Hypnotism. 

"Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and 
with all thy getting, get understanding." Prov. 4:7. 

Chapter IV. - - - False Christs. 

"Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come 

in my name, saying 1 am Christ: and shall deceive 

many." Matt. 24:4-o. 

Chapter V. - - - Orthodoxy. 

"Pure religion and undeiiled before God and the Father is 

this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their 

afflictions, and keep himself unspotted 

from the worid." J as. 1:27. 

Chapter VI. - "Christian Science" Worship. 

"The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit 
and in truth." John 4:23. 

Chapter VII. - - - Sects and Creeds. 

"In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the 

commandments of men." Mark 7:7. 

Chapter VIII. - - - Fallen Angels. 

"And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven 

and did cast them to the earth." Rev. 12:3. 

Chapter IX. A Religious Fraud. 

"Be not not deceived; God is not mocked." Gal. 6:7. 

Chapter X. - - "Christian Science" Doctrine. 

"And they shall say to you, See here; or see there; go not 

after them, or follow them." Luke 17:23. 

Chapter XI. - - "Christian Science" Surgery. 

"They speak great swelling words of vanity." II. Pet. 2:18. 

Chapter XII. - - "Christian Science" Healing. 
'They are spirits of devils working miracles." Rev. 16:14. 

Chapter XIII. - Is "Christian Science" Christian. 

"Beware of F^lse prophets which come to vou in sheep's 

clothing." Matt. 7:15. 

Chapter XIV. - - - Suggestive Orthodoxy. 

"The soul that sinneth it shall die." Ezek. 18:4. "Ye 

must be born again " John 3:7. 

Chapter XV. Conclusion — Mortality and Immortality 
"If a man die shall he live again?" Job 14:14. 




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CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 

"But speak thou the things which become 
sound doctrine." Tit. 2:1. 

♦Jff*N undertaking the effort suggested by the title of this 
1 1 book, to properly represent orthodox religion as op- 
posed by Christian Science, the greatest caution will 
be necessary to keep within bounds. 

It is not within the scope of this volume to discuss all 
the isms, creeds, and sects that have existed from the crea- 
tion down to the present time, but allusions are made to 
some of them to bring out the true. This naturally in- 
volves the evangelical churches as they existed in Ancient, 
Medieval, and modern ages, with their accompanying pro- 
gressions and retrogressions. 

With due defference to the rights and feelings of those 
who may not today be numbered among those of evangel- 
ical faith, whether in the church or out of it, these lines 
will be devoted to strict adherence of Scriptural doctrine 
as taught by the evangelical churches of all denominations ; 
for those, and those alone, are orthodox. 

Pray what other mission has the church here on earth £ 
Why should the Heavenly Father leave his suffering saints 
here on earth if it were not to carry the glad tidings of the 
Gospel to a ruined race? 

Therefore every denomination of whatever creed that 
has not this end in view is useless to God, and useless to 
humanity as an organization. Their sphere is swallowed 
up in some denomination already extant. On this plat- 
form it is not expected to win the applause of Buddhism r 
Mohammedism, Spiritualism, Dowieism, Christian. 
Science, or even narrow Sectarianism that comes like a 
wolf in sheep's clothing among even the evangelical 
churches; but it is hoped that in exposing the sects, and 



14 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

frauds that menace the present and eternal happiness of 
the human family, God will be pleased, true religion built 
up, and humanity benefited. 

Christian Science is not only antagonistic to true re- 
ligion as taught by the evangelical churches, but also to 
the science of medicine. It is a deplorable fact that in the 
medical fraternity too many are ungodly and immoral men. 

Religion ought to be so married to every calling and 
occupation in life that we would not only have Christian 
Doctors, but Christian Carpenters, Christian Lawyers, and 
Christian Farmers. 

It would be just as consistent for those of any trade or 
profession to join the name of their vocation to religion and 
start a new sect and get a following and build churches, as 
for Christian Scientists to do so. How would it seem to 
have the lawyer go out with Blackstone in one hand and 
the Bible in the other to start a new religion called "Chris- 
tian Civics"? Etc., etc. 

The three dollar book, the seventy-five dollar treatment 
and the three hundred dollar scholarship, suggest other 
motives than philanthropy, and leads one to think that 
compiling the occult and mysterious under a new name and 
christening it religion, contains a shrewd financial policy. 
In fact it is practically demonstrated among them. The 
private fortunes acquired by its practitioners, and their 
splendid churches that rival Soloman's temple for magnifi- 
cence, indicate, as straws, which way the wind blows. 

It seems impossible to believe after centuries of pro- 
gress in literature, art, and civilization, bringing us out of 
the dark ages and developing England, Germany, and 
America, that Luther, Knox, Calvin, Finney and Wesley, 
were a set of religious fanatics, and were all teaching the 
world a system of religion that was to be exploded by 
theories emanating from the brain of "the most remark- 
able woman of this or any age*." 

"The authorship of a book which is revolutionizing 
the world— as Science and Health with Key to the Script- 

* "Christian Science Sentinel," Page 181. 



INTRODUCTION. " 15 

ures is doing — is too important a matter to be lightly 
passed by.*" 

Surely, in both religion and medicine it is rapidly mak- 
ing its devastating march. The Christian world ought not 
to think lightly on these things. See here for instance a 
clipping from an advertisement that a Chicago practioner 
is heralding through the secular papers: 

"one million cured cases." 

"You can be cured whether you believe in Christian 
Science or not. Over a million cures of disease in every 
form are now to the credit of Christian Science Healing. 
Most of these were cases that the doctors had given up as 
'incurable.' Many more were chronic maladies that had 
baffled their skill for years. All were cured quickly; some 
were cured instantly. The evidence on these facts is 
simply indisputable and the curing still goes on. The 
healers and their work are still in the public view. As a 
Christian Science healer my many marvelous cures have 
startled the world. During the past thirteen years I have 
healed diseases of almost every known kind and in every 
stage of severity. They included many surgical cases 
where operations were otherwise threatened. I cured cases 
that were far away from me, as well as those near at hand, 
and I tell you in like manner that wherever you may dwell, 
and whatever your bodily ailment, you shall be cured. 
This is no vain or idle promise. My past success fully 
justifies it. You can be cured in this city or a thousand 
miles away from me. In our Christian Science Healing 
distance is of no account; disbelief is not any hinderance; 
disappointments of the past only make stronger grounds 
for hope. All you really need is the wish to be healed." 

This equals the occultism of Paracelsus in the Dark 
Ages. The Father of Alchemy said "Whether the object 
of your faith be real or false you will nevertheless obtain 
the same effects. Thus if I believe in St. Peter's statue as 
I would have believed in St. Peter himself, I will obtain 
the same effects that I would have obtained from St. Peter: 

* "Christian Science History." PageSi. 



16 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

— but that is superstition. Faith however, produces mira- 
cles, and whether it be a trueora false faith, it will produce 
the same wonders." 

The tendency of the age is to depart from the faith 
and give heed to seducing spirits. This is manifest in 
the Dowieite, Spiritualist, and Christian Scientist, all of 
whom are running greedily after the reward of Balaam. 

While Christian Science may boast of the fact that it 
has won the friendship and adherence of a few of the lead- 
ing lights from the intellectual world, not least among 
whom we mention Judge S. J. Hanna, Editor of the Chris- 
tian Science Sentinel and Hon. William G. Ewing, of Chi- 
cago, Illinois, yet on the whole, its membership comes from 
the mediocre of society. "It very rarely appeals to the really 
educated on the one hand or to the uneducated on the 
other; but its natural habitat is in that vast class of people 
who lie between, who have little cultivated the power of 
thought, and cannot keep in view two ideas at a time, and 
are therefore unable to draw a sound deduction. "J 

This fact has helped to shake off the diffidence felt by 
the author in trying to write a book; not claiming the elo- 
quence of Demosthenes or Cicero, or the splendor of diction 
that embellished the oratory of Webster or Sumner, much 
less claiming rivalry with the skillful reasoning that 
characterized the logic of Bacon or Locke, but with the 
conscientious aim of obeying the Apostolic command to 
"earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered 
to the saints, 1 * this work is prepared and offered to a candid 
world, not even desiring to present his own thoughts, but 
rather present these lines in such a way as to reach the 
common masses by letting "books talk/' 

The chimerical changes of Christian Science to suit 
the peculiar religious view of the adherent is interesting to 
note. Although the founder of this religion purports to be 
very much opposed to superstition, yet as a system of re- 
ligion or therapeutics it contains many of the errors of tin 4 
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18 INTRODUCTION. 

ble and well established truths, involving Magianism, 
Witchcraft, Clairvoyancy, Necromancy, Alchemy, Sor- 
cery, Fortune-telling, as well as Spiritualism, Mesmerism, 
Hypnotism, Somnambulism and Telepathy. That the 
reader may get a clear conception of the relation of the 
tricks of the conjurer or exorcist in his feats of legerde- 
main, in what is sometimes called Black Art, to the really 
scientific experiments in this enlightened age, and more 
especially for the benefit of those desiring to be truly re- 
ligious, and anxious to understand the difference between 
Orthodoxy and all false religions, including Christian Sci- 
ence, it seems necessary to introduce this book to the 
reader with a chapter on Black Art and one on Hypnotism, 
although if it were possible to do justice to the subject, they 
would be most gladly omitted. 

Oethodoxy versus Christian Science invites the 
mind of the reader to pure religion versus religious Science. 
Whether the evangelical churches of the present age are 
in keeping with the Orthodox religion of any age, and need 
a renovation by Christian Science, or are in keeping with 
religious superstitution and priestcraft of the different 
ag j s of human existence, the reader is requested to with- 
hold judgment till after the persual of this book, which 
has been carefully and prayerfully prepared after consult- 
ing "Science and Health," "Christian Science History, " 
"A Way That Seemeth Bight,*' "Hypnotism'" by Hart and 
Mason, and "Spiritualism" by Hammond and Weimar." 
"Suggestive Therapeutics" by Burnheim, and the Proceed- 
ings of the Society for Psychical Research of London, and 
carefully comparing them with the teachings of the Bible. 



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CHAPTER II. 



BLACK AKT. 

"Their folly shall be manifest unto all 
men."— II. Tim. 3:9. 

®NE convinced against his will, is of the same opin- 
ion still," is a common proverb; yet how true. The 
limitless credulity of the human mind often in- 
volves the unwary in such a manner as to cause serious 
difficulties socially, civilly, scientifically and religiously. 

"Seeing is believing" passes current also among the 
unsuspecting, but the maxim must be carefully received; 
"All that glitters is not gold" is true also. 

Many are ready to cry out and say that there is no 
such thing as Black Art, as practiced by the Alchemist, 
Necromancer, Witch, Clairvoyant, etc. Such statements 
need to be received with some modification. To begin with 
let us not get into the sorry plight of the Christian Scient- 
ist, who says that there is no matter and then says that 
sickness is an illusion propagated by matter. 

Idealism conceives of a body without the infirmities 
of disease and death, but Realism convinces us that sin, 
disease and death are hard stubborn facts with which 
humanity has to deal, and Christian Scientists are not ex- 
ceptions; their founder herself having buried two hus- 
bands, Dr. Asa Eddy being one of them who succumbed 
to the Death Angel after the wonderful discovery of what 
is purported to be Divine Science. 

Alchemy was a pretended science that was cultivated 
from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, but it is 
now held in contempt. 

Paracelsus and Van Helmont pretended they had the 
alkahest, the universal solvent, a menstrum capable of dis- 
solving all bodies. By application of the alkahest to the 
baser metals they claimed to be able to change them by a 



20 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

scientific process to gold. It was also claimed to be a uni- 
versal remedy for all diseases, as Christian Science does 
now-a-days. 

Now what shall we say about the other occult sciences 
alluded to ? Do you believe the Bible ? Do you love 
God? Then listen to what He says about such things: 
"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh 
his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that 
useth divination, or an observer of the times, or an en- 
chanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with famil- 
iar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do 
these things are an abomination."* Deut. 18:10-12. 

Those desiring to know more fully what the Bible says 
concerning the Black Art are requested to read the follow- 
ing references: Ex. 22:18 Lev.l9:26-31: 20-6. 27. Mic. 
5:12. Mai. 3:5. Gal. 5:20. Rev. 21:8-15. 

Sorcery. Fortune-telling, and Spiritualism are only 
modern names for the same evil practices. The question 
for us to settle is. are they realities with which we have to 
deal. 

The Christian has had to deal with the Black Art since 
the beginning, just as the true philosopher of the medieval 
ages has had to deal with Alchemy — as a rank imposture. 
But this statement must be understood. No process was 
ever discovered that could turn iron or 1 j ad into, gold or 
silver, even though alchemists produce 1 counterfeits, Mid 
deceived many. 

The Clairvoyant, and Spiritualist of the pi\ s -l.t day 
often perform wonderful feats that have the appearance of 
miracles to the unlearned, such as revealing family secrets, 
finding lost articles, curing warts, telling past events which 
are known to no one but yourself, tipping tables, untying 
bound persons, etc. All of which can be accounteJ lor by 
a proper investigation of the laws of hypnotism or de- 
] onism. 

An 1 while many of these are counterfeits ye1 th» 
one -r.in 1 frau 1 thai is always a fraud an 1 nothing be, a 
fraul. an 1 that is communication with the depart.' 1 dead. 



BLACK ART. 21 

Tliis phase of Necromancy is as false as Alchemy and the 
incantations and conjurations of its practitioners are gastly 
an 1 g lonlish, insomuch that its grisly, ghostly perform- 
anc js are considered improper to be narrate:! in this book, 
as practiced by Cellini and other Italian Mystics of the 
medieval ages. Spiritualism and its demoniacal practices 
is "illustrate 1 in the 28 th chapter of Samuel: 

"Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented 
him, and buried him in Raman, even in his own city. And 
Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the 
wizards, out of the land. 

"Anl the Philistines gathered themselves together, 
and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all 
Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa. 

"And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he 
was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. 

"And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord 
answer e 1 him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by 
phophets. 

'"Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a wcman 
that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and in- 
quire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there 
is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor. 

"And Saul disguised himself, and put on other rai- 
ments and he went, and two men with him, and they came 
to the woman by night: and he sail, I pray thee, divme 
unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up whom 
I shall name unto thee. 

"And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou kriowest 
what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off* those that nctve 
familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wh«rof*ore 
then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die? 

"'And Saul sware to her by the Lord, saying. As the 
Lord liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for 
this thing. 

"Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto 
thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel. 

"And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a 



22 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why 
hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul. 

"And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what 
sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods 
ascending out of the earth. 

"And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she 
said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a 
mantle. And Saul i:>erceived ^hat ^ was Samuel, and he 
stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself. 

"And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted 
me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore dis- 
tressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God 
is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither 
by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, 
that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do. 

"Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of 
me, seeing the Lord is departed from thee, and is become 
thine enemy? 

"And the Lord hath done to him, as he spake by me: 
for the Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and 
given it to thy neighbor, even to David: 

"Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord, nor 
executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath 
the Lord done this thing unto thee this day. 

"Moreover, the Lord will also deliver Israel with thee 
into the hands of the Philistines: and tomorrow shalt thou 
and thy sons be with me: the Lord also shall deliver the 
host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines." 

Note carefully the following: (1) Saul went to a witch. 
(2) The witch saw an apparition resembling Samuel. (3) 
The witch knew Saul. (4) Saul believed it was Samuel. 
(5) The apparition and Saul conversed together. (6) The 
revelation. (7) Saul's punishment: 

"So Saul died for his transgression which he com- 
mitted against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, 
which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that 
had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it." -I Chronicles, 10:13. 

This is probably the most difficult case on record to 



BLACK ART. 23 

explain but even this is very interestingly explained by 
Weimar in "Mysteries and Revelations," Page 95: 

''Saul waited until night and then with two compan- 
ions disguised himself and went forth to fill up the measure 
of his iniquities and transgressions — rebellion and stub- 
bornness. Finding the medium he requested her to call 
up Samuel. But since we have already given sufficient 
proof that the mediums do not consult the spirits of the 
departed ones it is clear that the demon in the medium 
masqueraded, mimicked and personated the departed spirit 
of Samuel. 

"It was a diabolical and demoniacal personified reality, 
and the medium pretended to see the materialized spirit of 
Samuel, and in order to make it appear as being the real 
Samuel she started at seeing him. Then falling into a 
state of clairvoyancy she pretended seeing Elohim Gods ! 
Just pause and think ! And likewise pretended seeing 
the materialized Samuel, for that is what Saul desired 
to see. Saul, however, did not see Samuel with his 
eyes, but supposed that it was he from the mediums de- 
scription, which she gave in the state of clairvoyancy, or 
seeing that which is beyond the material. Had it been a 
clear case of clairvoyance, that is without being coupled 
with one having a familiar spirit, or having a demon in her, 
we could accept her talk from a different standpoint, but 
the demon in her not only personated the spirit of Samuel 
but also the message that Samuel might have formulated 
and used. The indwelling demon in the medium person- 
ated and imitated Samuel in materialized form. 

"I cannot conceive for a moment that God for any spec- 
ial reason awakened his beloved servant out of his 'repose' 
or 'rest' especially merely on the ground of the following 
statement, 'Why hast thou disquieted me.' 

"Shall we believe the rebellious and stubborn King 
Saul had the power and the effect upon the 'repose' or 'rest' 
of Samuel to disquiet him? 'The righteous enter into 
peace.' 

"Sauls' inconsistency was convicted by the language 

used, not by the real Samuel, but by a personater.*** 



24 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

"But one asks, What about the denunciating judgment 
eorcerrirg Saul and Israel's defeat by the Philistines? 
(which came true.) Does not that prove Samuel's appear- 
ance? No, not necessarily. 

"Do you not 1 now that God gave a wonderful and all sig- 
nificant double denoument through that most wicked high 
priest, Caiaphas"? He said to the priests, Sanhedrim, and 
the people: 'Ye know nothing at all nor consider that it is 
expedient for us that one man should die for the people, 
and that the whole nation perish not.' — John 11:19, 50. 

"And what does the inspired Apostle say concerning 
this prophecy? "But Caiaphas said not this of himself , but 
being High Priest that year he predicted that Jesus was 
about to die in behalf of the nation, and not only in behalf 
of the nation but that he should assemble into one, the 
children of God who has been scattered abroad." — Verses 
51,52.*** 

"Now could not God make similar use of the medium 
at Endor in giving the denunciation of judgment concern- 
ing Saul's death and Israels defeat by the Philistines? 
And the medium attributing it to Samuel in order to have 
it in harmony with her role play and with her functions of 
clairvoyancy, ventriloquism, and polyphonism ? And being- 
recorded as it is, does it not appear to be merely a repeti- 
tion of I Sam. 15:18, 19, 28? Showing that God may not 
have had anything to do with it. The medium and the 
demon in her could repeat the substance of the reference." 
The only logical and common sense way of meeting 
the pernicious fact of any diabolical use of science or re- 
ligion is with the Bible: and it clearly teaches that the 
Devil and his angels are through some high purpose of 
the Almighty Father permitted to visit this mundane 
sphere: but God has said "Be not deceived." Undoubt- 
edly it is for the perfection of his people. 

Spurgeon says "Tribulations are treasures, and if we 
are wise we ought to reckon our afflictions among our rar- 
est jewels, the caverns of sorrow are mines of diamonds. 
Our earthly passions may be silver, but temporal trials are 



BLACK ART. 15 

to the saints, invariably gold. We may grow in grace 
through what we enjoy, but we probably make the greatest 
progress through what we suffer/' 

"In the furnace G( d may prove thee, 

Thence to bring thee forth more bright: 

But can never cease to love thee, 
Thou art piecious in his sight. 

God is with thee, 

God thine everlasting light." 

The most modern imposture masquerading under the 
cloak of religion, outri vailing in mysticism the tricks of the 
Davenport brothers, or even the magical performance of 
the East Indian Jugglers is Christian Science. 

Coupled with its peculiar nomenclature are the mysti- 
cal statements that "there is no matter." "there is no pain," 
"sin," "sickness"' and "death," are "illusions of mortal mind," 
and their opposites "spirit,"" "happiness,"' "holiness," 
"health"* and "life"" are the only "realities."" But these 
so-called scientific statements have never been demonstrated, 
by either the founder of the religious farce, or her enthus- 
iastic followers, any more than iron has been converted into 
gold, or the dead raised by the Italian necromancer. 

Whatever may have been the motive of Paracelsus or 
Van Helmont to pretend to transmute the metals: what- 
ever may have been the motive of the necromancer or 
gypsy fortuneteller; whatever may have been the motive 
power that incited Papacy to the sale of "Indulgences," 
whatever may have been the impelling power to originate 
and practice the tricks of Spiritualism, a slight investiga- 
tion of the modes and practices of the Christian Scientist, 
will reveal his "money getting" proclivities, and the moral 
indignation of the public is especially induced, as they are 
practiced in the name of religion. 

One cannot help feeling toward the Christian Scientist 
as the Irishman did toward a certain species of insectivora, 
well known to the, gc wis homo, in his nocturnal habits: 
Said Pat, "As a bug, I've no objections to him as a bug, 
but its the way he gets his living." Its not the Scientist 
we hate, but the way he makes his money." 



26 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

Alchemy, Necromancy, and Spiritualism are the 
unmasked enemies of science and religion; some are 
dead and the others ought to be. 

Shall the contaminating breath of the latest progeny 
of Sin and Satan, be permitted to invade the sanctity of the 
home and social circle under the high sounding title of 
Christian Science? Or shall we insist that Black Art and 
priestcraft, including this and other religious anomalies, be 
sunk into oblivion, leaving medicine and miracles, and Sci- 
ence and Religion in the sphere for which they were de- 
signed by the Creator; to walk together in harmony through 
this progressive age? 

As corroborating authority for all that has been said in 
this chapter or will be said in the succeeding ones these 
six theses and their comments by Prof. Frederic W. H. 
Myers, in an address before the Society For Psychical Re- 
search, 1895, on "Resolute Creduality," are submitted: 

"Thesis 1.- There is such a thing as "Occult Science" or 
Magic; and supernormal powers, especially in the East, are trans- 
mitted by tradition, or acquired by ascetic practices, so that the 
possessors of such powers can understand and control them. 

I was disposed to believe in the truth of some parts at 
least of this thesis, but the study of various books and 
periodicals written to defend it has destroyed that tendency 
to belief. 

Thesis 2.— Mahatmas exist in Thibet; Mme. Blavatsky's oc- 
cult performances and those of her friend were genuine,— and 
(this last clause is now optional) have been continued since her 
death by Mr. Judge. 

I do not propose to say anything more on all this. 
History tells us that Moseilana after the death of Mahomet 
introduced an egg into a bottle, and by the marvel of that 
sight shook the prestige of the Prophet and balanced for 
some months the destinies of Islam. 

An egg in a bottle! One might exhibit an apple in a 
dumpling to Mr. Judge's admirers, and ask them triumph- 
antly what they had to say to that. 

Thesis 3.— The heavenly bodies indicate or influence in an 

occult way the destinies of men. 



BLACK ART. 27 

I do not know on what evidence this belief is based. 

Thesis 4.— The lines in a man's hand indicate his history, 
character, and destiny. 

I have seen no evidence of any value for this proposi- 
tion. 

Thesis 5. —By the act of bathing in or drinking the water of 
the spring of Lourdes or of other sacred springs; or by invoca- 
tions of a special kind; or by the practice of a "Christian 
Science" which can be learnt from books and lectures; therapeu- 
tic results are obtained which differ in kind from those in 
ordinary suggestion or self-suggestion without any of these 
adjuncts and are occasionally produced. 

I am personally very anxious that some part of the 
above thesis should be proved true; — that is to say that 
some method should be found by which the processes of 
therapeutic self-suggestions, at present so rarely effective, 
should be made more certain and more profoundly effica- 
tious. I cannot but think that there must be some method; 
but I see little evidence that it has yet been found. 

Thesis 6.— Some public showmen now use in their exhibi- 
tions some form of supernormal power. 

I should be very willing to believe this thesis, which 
would show T more regularity in the operation of telepathy 
or clairvoyancy than we have ever seen obtained in experi- 
ments. But I see no proof that it is true of any public- 
performer at the present time." 

The frauds and fallacies of the pretended religious 
science of Christian Science, as well as other false philoso- 
phies and false religions may be better understood by a 
careful study of the above theses. 






CHAFJtK III. 



HYPNOTISM. 

"Wisdom is the principal thing; there- 
lore get wisdom: and with all thy getl ing 
get understanding." — Pro v. 4:7. 

fmpostures are so numerous in both Science and Re- 
ligion that skepticism abounds on every hand not less 
in one than the other. The Savior himself said, 
"And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many 
shall wax cold.'— Mat. 24:12. 

Yet among the truly wise, Science as well as Religion 
is recognized and embraced. Hypnotism is comparatively 
a young child of Science, being born about 1773 and 
christened Mesmerism after its discoverer, an uneducated 
German physician, philosopher and mystic, but was re- 
christenecl, Hypnotism, the name which the science now 
bears, by an English surgeon named Braid, who made some 
new and interesting experiments in 1812. 

"He showed that the so-called mesmeric sleep could be 
produced in some patients by other processes than those 
used by the early mesmerists: especially could this be ac- 
complished by having the patient gaze steadily at a bril- 
liant object or point, without resorting to passes or 
manipulations of any kind*." 

The science of Hypnotism has undergone some periods 
of "ebb and flow;" it has had its ups and downs as we 
sometimes say and in some instances, probably right I v 
enough, from its abuse. For instance take Hart's account 
of Mesmer himself, making "merchandise" out of his dupes 
in Paris. Not. fully understanding the cause of the phe- 
nomena accompaning his experiments, Mesmer himself 
supposed the hypnotic state of his patients to be due to 
something which he called a magnetic fluid. 

"At the time when all Paris rang with the wonders of 

"Telepathy and the Subliminal Self.'" Page 32. 



HYPNOTISM. 29 

his power, and when his ante-chambers were rilled with the 
Princes of the blood royal; with the halt, the lame, and the 
blind; with mystics, monks, reJtgieuses; with ladies of 
fashion and the heterogeneous multitudes who love the 
marvelous; he had constructed huge and complex tubs filled 
with bottles of fluids, erroneously called electrical fluid, 
such as Count Mather now dispenses, and connected by a 
complicated system of wires with handles to be held by his 
subjects. Mesmer received 16,000 /. for telling his secrets, 
which of course turned out to be no secrets at all and it 
was found that there was no electricity in the bottles or 
tubs. Presently he returned across the Rhine, enriched by 
his dupes, who ceased to be cured as the fashion died away 
and their faith waned.**** 

But Mesmer left a doctrine, a principle and a nomen- 
clature, which has served the purpose of succeeding gener- 
tions of quacks and ' gobemoiwhes* ." 

Even though Mesmer was an unprincipled practitioner, 
yet that fact does not overthrow hypnotic science. 

How often we see the religious world humbugged in 
like manner; nor does that overthrow Christianity. 

"Broad is the road that leads to death 
And thousands walk tog-ether there, 

But wisdom shows a narrow path, 
With here and there a traveler.'" 

and the faithful few will be victoriously crowned at last. 

It will be interesting and beneficial to note some of the 
phenomena incident to Hypnotism, and investigate their 
causes from a scientific standpoint. Those who are unwill- 
ing to learn either in science or religion will reject as 
superstition, the plainest facts of human experience, with 
no better excuse than ''I don't believe in such things." 

Less than a hundred years ago the wonders of the 
telegraph, the phonogragh, telephone and Xrays would 
have met with the same opposition that wireless telegiaphy. 
Telepathy, and Hypnotism do today from some sources; 
but the progressive and unprejudiced will investigate and 
advance/ For everything there is a caus j . 

* ""Hypnotism." by Hart. Page - 1 . 



30 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

Sciences deal exclusively with natural causes, while 
true religion is revealed from God to man. While the 
workings of God are mysterious and supernatural yet as 
science advances and we know more of nature and more of 
our wonderful mechanism we assign causes for what takes 
place in the scientific world as well as among congregations 
of religious worshipers. As Dean Hart says: "It is not the 
facts of which we need entertain any doubt." The exist- 
ence of hypnotic and telepathic phenomena are settled 
by a mass of the most substantial evidence, but it is of 
their interpretation and the use to which they are put that 
the world should be admonished. 

"I define hypnotism as the induction of a peculiar 
psychical condition which increases the susceptibility to 
suggestion."* 

Every day occurrences, around home and in business, 
or in society, or at church, in fact all the scenes of life are 
replete with coincidences that awaken our interest in the 
double existence of man — his physical and psychical na- 
tures. 

Who has not wondered about his dreams, or perhaps 

talking or walking in sleep, or perhaps the curious acts of 
the somnambulist ? 

A gentleman once in a state somnambulism hid his 
pants and neither he nor his friends could find them. The 
next night his friends watched him visit the scene of the 
secreted goods and discovered the useful articles. 

In another instance a farmer was building a house and 
one of his small children, who was in the habit of rising in 
his sleep would mount the scaffolding, and accomplish 
ambulations on the frame-work of the building that would 
rival the daring rope walker of the circus. 

My brother once sold a handful of warts to a stranger 
for an old envelope which he undoubtedly lost purposely, 
and my cousin finding it received apparently the same old 
ugly knotty things oi) her corresponding hand: Every 
school-boy wonders what was the matter with the Salem 
witches. The following case may not only clear up tin 4 

♦"Suggestive Therapeutics," >>y Burnhelm. 



HYPNOTISM. 31 

mystery but also be given as a good example of "hysteria." 
"Four children of John Goodwin, of Boston, remark- 
able for their piety, industry and honesty, were in the year 
1688 made subjects for witchcraft. The eldest, a girl 
about thirteen years old, had a dispute with a laundress 
about some linen that was missing, and the laundress' 
mother, a scandalous Irish woman of the neighborhood 
applied some very abusive language to the child. The 
latter was at once taken with odd fits which carried in them 
something diabolical. Soon afterwards the other children, 
a girl and two boys, became similarly affected. Sometimes 
they were deaf, sometimes blind, sometimes dumb, and 
sometimes all of these. Their tongues would be drawn 
down their throats and then pulled out upon their chins to 
a prodigious length. Their mouths were often forced open 
to such an extent that their jaws were dislocated and were 
then suddenly closed with a snap like that of a spring lock. 
The like took place with their shoulders, elbows, wrists and 
other joints. They would then lie in a benumbed condi- 
tion and be drawn together like those tied neck and heels 
and presently be stretched out and then drawn back enor- 
mously. They made piteous outcries that they were cut 
with knives and struck with blows, and the plain prints of 
the wounds were seen upon them. 

"At times their necks were rendered so Umber that the 
bones could not be felt, and again they were so stiff that 
they could not be bent by any degree of force. The woman 
who by her spells was supposed to have these possessions 
was arrested. Her house was searched and several images 
made of rags and stuffed with goats hair were found. 
These the woman confessed she employed for the purpose 
of producing the torments in the children, which she did 
by wetting her finger with saliva and stroking the images." 1 

The experiment was made in court to the entire satis- 
faction of all concerned. 

Without further burdening this chapter with narra- 
tions of incidents and the veritble facts of hypnotized per- 
sons eating pepper and mustard with a relish, and reject- 



32 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

ing as nauseaing the most wholesome articles of diet, read- 
ing writing in sealed envelopes etc.. and passing over the 
shams, tricks, and feats of legerdemain perperated by the 
stage performer and ungodly x^ersons to glean the shining 
sheckels from the "two willing' 1 public, let us turn our at- 
tention to the demonstrated facts of both hypnotism and 
of psychology upon which the erudite agree in many parti- 
cular phenomena, even though differing in the use of 
technical terms. On Page 12 of ••Telepathy'* Dr. Mason 
remarks: "Among the subjects which may be considered 
established may be placed: 

(1) The reality of the hypnotic condition. 

(2) The increased and unusual power of suggestion 
over the hypnotized subject. 

i'S) The usefulness of hypnotism as a therapeutic 
agent. 

(4) The perfect, reality and natural, as contrasted 
with the supernatural character, of many wonderlul phe- 
nomena both physical and psychical exhibited in the 
hypnotic state. 

On the other hand much remains for future study; 

( 1 ) The exact nature of the influence which produces 
the hypnotic condition is not known. 

(2) Neither is the nature known of the rapport or 
peculiar relationship which exists between the hypnotizer 
and the hypnotized subject — a relationship which is some- 
times so close that the subject hears no voice but that of 
his hypnotizer, perceives and experiences the same sensa- 
tions of taste, touch, and feeling generally as are experi- 
enced by him and can be awakened by him only. 

(3) Nor is it known by what peculiar process sug- 
gestion is rendered so potent, turning for the time being- 
water into wine, vulgar weeds into choicest flowers, a large 
drawing room into a fish- pond, and clear skies and quiet 
waters into lightning-rent storm clouds and tempasi tossed 
waves; turning laughter into sadness, and tears into mirth." 

Of the subjects he considers established (3) is consid- 
ered dubious by eminent scholars. (1). {-) and (3) of 



HYPNOTISM. 33 

what remains for "future study" is enveloped in too much 
uncertainty to merit a place in this book. 

Our attention is therefore invited to the verified hyp- 
notic phenomena, and when these are understood their 
proper relation to Orthodox religion may be determined. 

At the first let the mind be disabused of the fact that 
the Nervous Disorder treated by most authors on hypno- 
tism, under the head of "Hysteria" is not strictly within 
the scope of hypnotism but belongs more properly to the 
realm of Materia Medica, where it is called neurosis. 
"Hysteria is not a synonym for any nervous impression- 
ability whatever, for as we all have nervous tissues, and as 
it is a property of such tissues to be impressionable, we 
should all be hysterical."* 

From this standpoint the hallucinations, visionary 
statements, and frantic freaks of the religious fanatic may 
also be satisfactorily accounted for, as well as the various 
and multitudinous complexities of home and social life, 
and yet the power of mind over matter is wonderfully 
evinced. 

It is sometimes spoken of as one sympathizing with 
himself. In extreme cases it has been known to throw the 
physical being into convulsions, bring on hemorrhage, ex- 
cite fevers and may even bring on disease and death, all 
by a law of sympathy which may be better understood by 
studying the ganglionic phenomena of the physical system. 

Persons so affected would gain much every way by 
diversion of some kind, a change of climate, or change of 
employment. 

"Suggestion" is a technical term used in hypnotism 
and means the act of hypnotising and conveys the idea of 
occult j)ower. It is, says Bernheim, the key to Braidism. 

"Suggestion is the influence exerted by an idea which 
has been suggested to, and received by the mmd."f 

"Braid proved that no magnetic fluid exists and that 
no mysterious force emanates from the hypnotizer. The 



'"Suggestive Therapeutics." Preface Page S. 
+Bernheim. Page 125. 



34 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

hypnotic state and its associated phenomena are purely 
suggestive in their origin, which is in the nervous system 
of the subject himself."* 

"While under the influence of hypnotic suggestions a 
lad for instance, is made to go through the pantomime of 
fishing in an imaginary brook, a dignified man to canter 
around the stage on all fours, under the impression that he 
is a pony, or watch an imaginary mouse-hole in the most 
alert and interesting manner, while believing himself a cat; 
or the subject is made to take castor oil with every ex- 
pression of delight, or reject the choicest wines with dis- 
gust, believing them to be nauseous drugs, or stagger with 
drunkenness under the influence of a glass of pure water 
supposed to be whiskey. All these things have been done 
over and over for the past forty years, and people have not 
known whether to consider them as species of necromancy 
or well practiced tricks in which the performers were ac- 
complices; or perhaps a few more thoughtful and better 
instructed people have looked upon them as involving 
psychologicial problems of the greatest interest, which 
might some day strongly influence all our systems of men- 
tal philosophy. "f 

"Stigmatization" is a term of Roman Catholic origina- 
tion, coming from marks on the cody resembling the wounds 
on the body of the crucified Savior. St. Francis is said to 
have had them in his body both before and after his death. 
This was in the 13th century. 

St. Paul himself said, "I bear in my body the marks 
of the Lord Jesus." — Gal. 6:17. 

It is further stated by Dean Hart in "A Way That 
Seemeth Right," Page 27, "If later years had not supplied 
us with unquestionable instances of marks on the skin, 
coming at the instigation of the will, abnormally directed, 
we might be inclined to believe that the origin of the stig- 
mata in every case might be naturally accounted for. and 
not seldom traced to the persons themselves." 

^•.-MiL^-st Ive Therapeutics." I ;i ;e 111. 
!" r I"( If|>:i1 liy." Page 53. 



HYPNOTISM. 35 

Herein is a wonderful lesson on the effect of the mind 
on the body. 

The idiotic expression of the opium eater; the silly 
look of the cigarette dude, the hateful appearance of the 
whisky sot; the sneering, scornful, domineering, and 
searching gaze of the gambler; the gnarled, shrivelled, 
menacing piercing face of the sorceress; and the glaring, 
deceitful, sinister, smiling countenance of the mystic ; all 
furnish a fruitful field for the research of the physiog- 
nomist. 

Although often counterfeited by wicked people, Clair- 
voyancy properly interpreted into Scriptural language is the 
gift of prophecy. The Bible is full of instances of this 
phenomenon in both the old and the New Testaments. 

Among the instances of this kind that may be men- 
tioned is that of Elisha and the Syrian King.— II Kings, 
6:12, and the New Testament, prophet Agabus Acts 11:28, 
and 21:10. This is a gift amongst those mentioned by St. 
Paul in I Cor. 12:10. The readers will please notice in the 
9th verse the gifts of the Spirit. These things scienti- 
fically understood and practiced by the godly man or 
woman is in accord with the divine will. The working of 
miracles is not hypnotic suggestion. Instead of scienti- 
fic phenomena they are religious phenomena. 

Some good Christians get tinged with the Christian 
Science idea, that the use of medicine is unscriptural. This 
is fanaticism . 

The Bible says, ; 'A merry heart doeth good like a 
medicine." — Prov. 17:22. Strictly speaking the only cases 
of divine healing are where the glory of God may be 
made manifest. When medicine is no longer potent, and 
all human effort is exhausted, in answer to the prayer of 
faith God has raised the sick, thus verifying the maxim 
that "Man's extremity is God's opportunity." In such 
cases God would be glorified as well as in cases of con- 
version. 

Numerous and well authenticated cases of divine 
healing are on record in religious history. 

But everything in the church that cannot be accounted 



36 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

for by a demonstrated natural law is rejected by the ma- 
teralist, but those phenomena that are purely supernatural 
often lead the Christian to exclaim, "Oh the depths of the 
riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How 
unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding 
out!" — Romans 11:33. 

It is further stated by Dean Hart in "A Way That 
Seemeth Right," Page 27, "Telepathy is the science of 
thought transference." Dean Hart published "Hypno- 
tism, Mesmerism and the New Witchcraft" in 1893, in 
which he refers to this science among the "popular errors 
and pseudo-scientific superstitions," in the following lan- 
guage: 

"Telepathy is a silly attempt to revive in a pseudo- 
scientific form, such as self-deception of this kind has al- 
ways assumed, and in a very feeble form, and with very 
futile and inane results, the failures and impostures of the 
past." 

Yet four years later in 1897, "Telepathy and the 
Subliminal Self," by Dr. Mason, was published, "in which 
are somethings hard to be understood;" and yet the follow- 
ing is beyond successful contradiction: "The recognition 
of the subliminal self as forming a part of the psychical 
organization of man will throw light upon many obscure 
mental phenomena, and bring order out of seemingly hope- 
less confusion. Placed before us as a working hypothesis, 
many other facts, before unclassified, group themselves 
about in wonderful clearness and harmony."* 

Again: "Sometimes the subliminal self takes full 
control, making itself the active ruling personality to 
the entire exclusion of the primary self; and sometimes it 
only sends messages to the primary or ordinary self, by 
suggestion, mental pictures, or vivid impressions made 
upon the organs of sense, and producing the sensation of 
seeing, hearing, and touch. "f 

The above is certainly more scientific than to account 
for the very ordinary phenomena recognized and observed 

"►"Telepathy." Page 145. 
+ Ibid. Page H3. 



HYPNOTISM. 37 

almost universally in human experience by a mere passing 
remark of "wheels within wheels," or "subjective mind." 

Whole pages have been read by the primary self while 
the subliminal self was engaged in planning some impor- 
tant work, and upon the primary self assuming control, the 
student recognizes the fact that he has read several pages 
of which he knows nothing, and in order to be thorough is 
compelled to re-read the pages. 

Some use the term "subjective mind" to designate the 
same thing, but no matter, "A rose would smell just as 
sweet by any other name." 

"Nor is this contrary to the teaching of Scripture or 
human experience. On the mount of transfiguration Peter 
said unto Jesus, "Master it is good for us to be here and 
let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, one for Moses 
and one for Elias: not knowing what he said." — Luke 9:33. 

The visions of Ezekiel, John the Revelator, Peter and 
Paul are all easily accounted for in this way and elucidates 
the first five verses of the 12th chapter of II Cor. 

"It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will 
come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man 
man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the 
body I cannot tell; or out of the body. I cannot tell; God 
knoweth;) Such an one caught up into the third heaven. 
And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the 
body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) how that he was caught 
up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is 
not lawful for a man to utter. Of such an one will I glory; 
yet of myself I will not glory but in mine infirmities." 

The man or woman that will walk with God as Enoch 
of old did will "find more things in heaven and earth, Dr. 
Hammond, than are dreampt of in your philosophy." 

What is termed ecstacy, enthusiasm and even fanati- 
cism by the materialist or unscientific, was a blessed reality 
to the saints in the days of Finney, Wesley, Whitefield, 
Cartwright and Redfield. 

Shall we have the same now-a-days? Or shall the 
Church follow medieval Romanism with the spirit of the 
Inquisition ? 



38 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

Luther established the Reformation, Joan of Arch led 
the French to victory, and successfully crowned Charles 
the Dauphin at Rheims, and yet the ignorance and super- 
stition of the church caused the former to appear before 
the Diet at Worms, and the latter to be burned at the stake. 

"Oh for that flame of living lire 

Which shone so bright in saints of old, 

Which bade their hearts to heaven aspire, 
Calm in distress, in danger bold. 

Is not thy grace as mighty now 

As when Elijah felt its power? 
When glory beamed from Moses' brow, 

Or Job endured the trying hour? 

Remember Lord the ancient days 

Thy works renew, Thy grace restore, 

And while our hearts to Thee we raise 
On us the Holy Spirit pour. " 




CHAPTER IV. 



FALSE CHKISTS. 

"Take heed that no man deceive you. 
For many shall come in my name, saving 
I am Christ; and shall deceive many."— 
Mat. 24:4, 5. 

HS a proof of the blasphemous and anti-Christian 
principles of the so-called Christian Science, the 
history of a couple of religious sects, which is given 
by Prof. W. A. Hammond, M. D., in a work entitled "Spirit- 
ualism" are herewith submitted, with some clippings from 
authenticated Christian Science publications which are 
not allowed to contain an article, that does not meet with 
the approval of the board of education, under the auspices 
of the Mother Church at Boston. 

The reader is left to his own conclusions in the com- 
parisons. The first sect alluded to is the Shakers that ex- 
isted in England and America in the latter part of the 18th 
century. Page 239 in "Spiritualism" Prof. Hammond says: 
"But the relation of hysteria to religion has never been 
more distinctly shown than in the fact that women under 
its influence have been able to gather numerous followers, 
and actually to originate new religious faiths, of such pre- 
posterous tenets and practices, as to inevitably lead to the 
conclusion that the adherents are either fools or knaves! 

"Take for instance the Shakers. This sect professes 
to believe that Christ made his second appearance on earth 
in the person of one Ann Lee, an English-woman, daugh- 
ter of James Lee, a blacksmith of Manchester, England. 
(His second coming is Christian Science, says Science and 
Health, Page 587.) This woman was employed in a hat 
manufactory, was married when very young, and had four 
or five children all of whom died in infancy. At a very 
early period in life Ann Lee began to feel the awful sinful- 



40 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

ness of sin and depth of man's fall. Although she could 
neither read nor write, she managed to pick up from others 
a little smattering of the Bible, and evinced a great inter- 
est in the Apocrapha, as was natural she should under the 
peculiar circumstances of her career, she always said the 
Apocrapha was the cream of the Bible. 

"Night and day she labored to discover the root of all 
evil, and being convinced beyond a doubt where it lay, she 
opened a naming testimony against it, which brought down 
upon her head showers of persecutions too cruel for long 
endurance." 

"But many adopted her views ana she was called 
Mother as the head of the band of followers she had gath- 
ered around her !" (The very dear title given to Mrs. 
Eddy by her worshipers. "They are not only glad to call 
her their friend and benefactor, but by common and 
almost unknown impulse they endow her with the endear- 
ing name of 'Mother.'* Judge Ewing says, "The proof is 
abundant that like results and signs follow her teachings 
and its demonstrations as followed the words and com- 
mands of the Nazarene")-\ 

"By continual fasting and prayer, much agony of soul, 
incessant cries, tears and entreaties by day and by night, 
she wasted away, till becoming helpless, her followers were 
under the necessity of taking her in their arms as an in- 
fant. 

"It is said she was fed with pap from a spoon, a great 
portion of the time she was travailing in the 'New Birth. ' 
She travailed in this way for nine years, and then she an- 
nounced that she was born again, completely redeemed from 
all propensities of a fallen nature in July 1790. She then 
separated fom her husband and was duly regarded as the 
second Christ — the Redeemer of the world! (Reader 
please note how much of the kindred spirit is discernible 
in Christian Science principles and practices.) 

"Like all new religions this met with violent perse- 



•Clii'istian Science llislory. Page 20. 
tChriStlan Science Sentinel. 



FALSE CHRISTS. 41 

cution — not enough to crush it, just enough to feed it. 
In every place in England in which Mother Ann under- 
took to worship God by dancing on Sunday and preaching 
against the institution of marriage, persecution was ex- 
cited; but she bore up against it and her followers 
increased. 

' 'As in the case of the originators of other religious 
dogmas which do not admit of proof, Mother Ann began 
to work miracles for the confusion of unbelievers and the 
strengthening of the faithful. (Almost every issue of the 
Christian Science Sentinel teems with accounts of the 
miracles which is claimed to be done by the very same 
power that Jesus had.) 

"Thus we are told she was dragged before magistrates, 
for no other offense than worshipping God in the way laid 
down by herself, and was condemned to a cold, dark, prison 
with a small allowance of bread and water; yet she lived to 
the great astonishment and confusion of her enemies. 

"After being confined in this dark prison in delicate 
health, and with insufficient food, the doors were thrown 
open and thousands of spectators in breathless anxiety 
awaited the egress of an emaciated subdued woman sup- 
ported by one of her followers; but to their great astonish- 
ment Mother Ann came forth in unsurpassed beauty, with 
an air of dignified buoyancy, a halo of glory around her 
head, singing a song of paradise given her by an angel who 
attended her in the prison, and who had fed her with food 
sent by the Eternal Mother. For the Shakers worship a 
quadruple God, consisting of the Eternal Father, the Eter- 
nal Mother, the Son, and Holy Ghost; corresponding to 
Power, Mother Ann, Jesus Christ, and Wisdom. 

"She died in a few years and took her place in Heaven, 
to be worshipped as a member of the Godhead." (Such 
is the dubious history quoted- from an unpublished manu- 
script, Boston, 1850. It is not to be wondered at if some 
of the old seed of Salem Witchcraft or Shakerism should 
again break out in these "latter times." Boston is the 
"Hub" of literary greatness as well as Witchcraft and re- 



42 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

ligious fanaticism. The discerning may see the twin sis- 
ter of Christian Science in Shakerism by a continuation of 
the history from the same document.) 

" Sometimes Christ or Mother Ann enters the meeting 
room, bearing such presents as the band wants. The pres- 
ents are 'Spiritual' and are handed around by Christ to 
the faithful, who receive them as though they were real 
gifts. To one, golden potatoes are given; to another, 
oranges; to others, cakes, puddings, jellies, etc., with var- 
ious other things not known to the world." 

One can but think that Dr. Hammond voiced at least 
common sense when he said: 

"How can any person not utterly lost to all sense of 
the dignity of the human species think of these things 
without doubting the sanity of those who practice them? 

"Again, there is the remarkable example of Joanna 
Southcott, who announcing that she had conceived by 
supernatural agency and was about to give birth to another 
Christy or rather that Christ was to be born again through 
her, obtained many followers who anxiously expected the 
promised advent. 

"She called herself the woman spoken of in the 
revelation of St. John as the 'Bride, the Lambs Wife, 
clothed with the sun;' as she said 'by types and shadows, 
dreams and visions, I have been led on from 1792 to the 
present day!' " (Similar features can be detected in Chris- 
tian Science. "And he had in his hand a little book open. 
— Rev, 10:2. This angel or message from God is Divine 
Science. The angel had in his hand a 'little book' open 
for all to read. Mortal obey the heavenly evangel! Take 
up Divine Science. Head it from beginning to end."*) 

"Day and night she had hallucinations or visions, as 
she called them, which she accepted as realities, and which 
formed the basis of her prophecies and system of religion. 
When in her sixty-fifth year, she gave out that her preg- 
nancy had occured and Christ would be born again ol her. 

•"•Science and Health." Pages 588-9. 




REV. MAEY BAKER GLOVER EDDY, 
Founder of Christian Science. 



44 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

**** ;g u t a j) T gi ms took another view of the case and 
gave his views at lenth for arriving at a contrary opinion. 

"Nevertheless the faithful continued to believe. A 
crib of satin wood, mounted in gold, was provided for the 
heavenly infant. This was called "the manger.' (A 
scriptual garb.) The time arrived, her adherents waited 
patiently but there was no birth."' 

As a kindred topic the following is offered for com- 
parison. It seems to be a parody on the latter part of St. 
Mark's Gospel, narrating the death, burial and resurrection 
of Jusus and it seems also that unless the "Mother Church" 
had some motive she would not have permitted the publi- 
cation : 

"The discovery of Christian Science came in this way: 
A woman met with an accident which her physician con- 
sidered fatal; he said that she could not survive over three 
days. On the third day which was the Sabbath, her pastor 
called to say farewell, believing the injury to be fatal and 
the end to be near. When he was gone the other people 
were sent from the room, and the sufferer opened the Bible 
and read about the healing work of Jesus. Then dawned 
upon her consciousness the assurance that Divine Love 
must be omnipresent and the sense of this truth came like 
warm sunshine. Agony ceased, life warmed the cold limbs, 
strength was restored and she arose healed.''* 

We see the fulfillment of the Savior's words in the 
large membership of the Christian Science organization 
which is said to number upwards of a million; "and shall 
deceive many." 

If we should look for the natural cause it could be 
found in the following apt words of Prof. Hammond con- 
cerning false religions: 

"A little inquiry into the operations of the human 
mind, as they relate to matters of faith, is sufficient to 
reveal to us the fact that the extent of human credulity is 
illimitable, and that nothing can be asserted so absurd, so 

•"Christian Science," Sentinel. 



FALSE CHRISTS. 



45 



degrading, so blasphemous, so impossible, that there will 
not be found men and women with minds badly enough 
organized to accept it as an article of belief." 

The latest anomaly in religion prettily christened 
Christian Science, by its founder, with key to the Scriptures; 
in many respects out-rivals Mormonism with its "Book of 
Mormon." Shakerism, Mormonism, or Inquisitions, are 
no more blasphemous in principle, issuing "edicts," 
"bulls," "canonized revelations" etc., regardless of Script- 
ural authority, than is Christian Science in its loyalty to 
whatever comes from the "Mother Church" at Boston. 




CHAPTER V. 



ORTHODOXY. 

"Pure religion and undented before God 
and the Father is this, To visit the 
Fatherless and widows in their afflictions, 
and keep himself unspotted from the 
world."— Jas. 1:27. 

^^HE word orthodoxy is derived from two Greek 
II words; the first means true, and the second to think, 
and literally means true thinking. The pri- 
mary meaning according to Webster is "Soundness of 
Faith; a belief in the genuine doctorines taught in the 
Scriptures." The word is used antithetically to heterodoxy 
which litterally means another opinion, and according to 
Webster is defined as follows: "An opinion or doctrine 
contrary to the doctrines of the Scriptures." 

Of course every sincere person of any sect or creed is 
ready to say to those of another sect. "Heterodoxy is your 
doxy, but orthodoxy is my doxy." Consistency would at 
least grant that much to every consciencious human being. 
And herein there is a difference between science and 
religion. What has long been a known an 1 a settled fact 
in science cannot be overthrown by some apparent phe- 
nomena. 

The existence of matter is a known fact, and it is safe 
to act on that principle. The vast majority of people think- 
ing and acting in accordance with the opinion ought to 
make one very conservative in acting otherwise. 

But the fact that over three-fourths of the human 
family act as though there were no Christ does not make 
that a safe principle to go by, an inference that can be 
drawn from unbelief in Christ from the in iividual to the 
nation. 

The wHe differences between the different religions 
of the worlJ is conslusivj evidenci tha! thiyarenot all 



ORTHODOXY. 47 

"pure religion." "Buddhism with its 350,000,000 follow- 
ers replete with magicians, sorcerers, snake charmers, etc., 
is proof conclusive to enlightened minds that the heathen 
Chinee greatly needs a better religion. 

Mohammedism, having a following of 220,000,000, 
teeming with innumerable harem keepers, fortune-tellers 
and nomadic gypsy bands, gives evidence that the bar- 
barious Turk needs a better rule of faith and practice than 
is laid down in his Koran. Killing Christians, pilgrim- 
ages to Mecca and kissing smooth the stones of its temples, 
is conclusive proof that worshiping their great prophet, 
Allah, is not in harmony with right thinking. 

The Bible, revealing the great commandments, is the 
only true guide of man. 

(1) "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 
heait, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and 
with all thy strength." (2) "Thou shalt love thy 
neighbor as thy self. On these two commandments hang- 
all the law and the prophets."— Mk. 12:30, 31. Mat. 22:40. 

There is conclusive evidence, in the above named re- 
ligions, when we look at their effects upon mankind, to 
know that they are not orthodox. 

It follows as a coralary that Catholicism with its Saint 
worship and with-holding the Bible from its laity; and 
Christian Science with its Eddy worshipers, and "Science 
and Health" superceding the Bible, will never have the 
same beneflcient effect upon the world that God intended 
"pure religion" should have. 

If we say we believe the Bible let us take it all and 
let it shine forth in pure noble "word" and "deed." 

Christian Scientists do not believe in kneeling, but 
their service is full of "Our Leader," "The Discoverer," 
"Our Head" and "Mother." To those who observe the 
adepts "wresting the Scriptures" so as to make the twelfth 
chapter of the Apocalypse mean that the opening of the 
"sixth seal" referred to the coming of Christian Science, 
that the "woman, 11 was Mrs. Eddy, the "little book," "Science 
and Health," and the place in the "wilderness," Boston, and 



48 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIE NC E- 

the Holy Ghost, was Divine Science,f the above titles 
seem at least to mean St. Mary, Holy Mother, etc. And 
further, we. would think, if such praise was not sought and 
desired it would be suppressed in their official organ, the 
Christian Science Sentinel, where such captions and lauda- 
tions are numerous. 

In the one and only genuine system of religion in the 
world, there can be but one saving feature, namely: Su- 
preme love to God and its accompanyment which always 
follows: To love your neighbor as yourself. 

No wonder the Lord Jesus Christ said, "On these two 
commandments hang all the law and the Prophets." Love 
to God, and love to man, embraces the whole of revealed 
religion. "He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; 
and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly 
and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God?" 

It is said that man is a natural worshiper and will 
worship something. This is found to be true by the mis- 
sionaries that visit heathen lands. Even the savages of 
America worshiped the Great Spirit. 

God himself being love was compelled to people the 
universe, that he might love and have his affection recipro- 
cated in angels and men. No wonder God took the mar- 
riage relation to show man his attitude toward God, and 
calls the church by the endearing name of "Bride" and 
"The Lamb's Wife." Surely the religion of Jesus is a 
religion of love. 

Is this the distinguishing characteristic of paganism 
or idealism ? 

St. Paul in the first chapter of Romans, 22nd to 32nd 
verses, shows the tendency of a moral being who forgets 
God. It sent Lucifer and his followers to Hell and it will 
every son and daughter of Adam's lost race that will not 
heed the admonition, "Son, daughter, give me thine heart." 

'"Professing themselves to be wise they became fools, 
and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God, into an 

("'Science and Fleall h," Page 54C-567 



ORTHODOXY. 49 

image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and 
beasts, and creeping things. 

"Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness 
through their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies 
among themselves: who changed the truth of God into a 
lie, and worshipped the creature more than the Creator 
who is blessed forevermore. Amen. 

"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: 
for even their women did change the natural use into that 
which is against nature: and likewise the men leaving the 
natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward 
another, men with men working that which is unseemly 
and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error 
which was meet. 

"And even as they did not like to retain God in their 
knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do 
those things which are not convenient; being filled 
with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covet- 
ousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, haters 
of God, despitefull, proud, boasters, invt niors of evil things, 
disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant 
breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerci- 
ful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which 
commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the 
same, but have pleasure in them that do them !" 

What pure minded man or woman after looking at St. 
Paul's pen picture of a polluted moral nature would not 
thank God that Eternal Justice had decreed that "These 
shall go away into everlasting punishment but the right- 
eous into life eternal." — Mat. 25:46. 

It is in the very nature of a moral being, if his affec- 
tions are alienated from their proper resting place, to seek 
another. 

This accounts for unsettled relations in religion as 
well as in the home. Herein is Christian Science to be re- 
jected, because impersonating God and making Him prin- 
ciple as is declared in "Science and Health.*' As a religion 
it robs the soul of its repose in God. to wander in the 
waste places till it settles on something inferior to the 



50 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

Godhead. 

Buddha, Allah, and St. Mary herself will never 
be permitted to usurp the place of the Creator in the 
hearts of His people without suffering the wrath of a jeal- 
ous God ! History proves it and the edict has gone forth 
from the throne of God ! 

These false systems of religion have much of the 
mystic about them, and it attracts the curious and captures 
the credulous, but Orthodoxy has stood the test of the ages 
and the Old Book still stands as the great light-house to 
guide the mariner over life's ocean, in spite of all opposi- 
tion from "Scientists" and materialists, and the Christian 
is ready to say with the Psalmist. "Thy word is a lamp 
unto my feet and a light unto my path." 

There are many phenomena connected with Orthodox 
religion, that it may take a philosopher to explain and the 
fact that they are explainable need not weaken our faith in 
them as coming from God, or that many of them are unex- 
plainable, need not make us skeptical. No one has 
reasoned out the Trinity or the New Birth, the Resurrec- 
tion, etc., but many of the phenomena accompaning the 
facts of such things are attested by thousands of living- 
witnesses. 

For everything there is a cause, either natural or 
supernatural. Science is derived from the latin word seio, 
to know, and therefore means knowledge. 

Man has just two sources to draw from: Nature and 
its Author — God. This gives rise to natural and revealed 
religion. The former may interest, excite and afford pleas- 
ure, but is only temporary and fleeting and of itself alone 
is unsatisfactory to the human heart, but the latter brings 
a revelation of God himself as well as his handiwork to the 
soul of man with wonderful joy and peace. 

Jesus Christ said. "Behold the kingdom of God is 
within you." — Luk. 17:21. "The word behold is in the im- 
perative, expressing a command or exhortation an! is by 
no means a in ;re exclamation." -Wei ster. 

St. Paul under Lnspiratij n of God said. "The kingdom 
of Go I is not :r.( a! and <Y.uk: but righteousness and peace 



ORTHDDDXY. 51 

and joy in the Holy Ghost.'* — Romans, 14:17. 

Looking at the statement from the ratio of words used, 
one would be justified in saying that Bible religion is 
two-thirds feeling. This however would not harmonize 
with Dr. Hammond's rather dogmatical expression in his 
preface to "Spiritualism:"' : 'The 'Outpouring of the Spirit 
of God," an expression which would be blasphemous if it 
were not the result of ignorance — is too often to the physi- 
cian's perception, only another name for epilepsy, chorea, 
catalepsy, ecstacy. hysteria, or insanity." 

And in the "conclusion** he says too, rather arrogantly, 
concerning Science and Religion and Black Art: "My 
main object has been to show that so far as the matters 
which have engaged our attention are concerned, there are 
no phenomena connected with them which are not readily 
explainable by well known physiological, pathological, or 
psychical laws, and that many assertions made in reference 
to them are false. We see. too. that at all times during the 
historic period two classes of individuals have been con- 
cerned in the propagation of false ideas relative to certain 
phenomena which have been regarded as supernatural 
These are the deceivers and the deceived. Whether as 
priests, witches, magicians, somnambulists, ecstatics, hys- 
terical persons, or mediums, the first are deceivers, some of 
them honest, but by far the greater number of them guilty 
of fraud. Whether subject to illusions, hallucinations, or 
delusions: whether weak-miiide:l. superstitious or ignorant 
—the second are deceived."'"" 

Some one has aptly pasted a newspaper clipping on 
the fly leaf of Vie volume from which the above was ex- 
tracted: "Hammond is somewhat dogmatical in his state- 
ments. and many people whose word is as mighty as his 
own Wxll be incline 1 to take issue with him on certain 
points. 

"H s statement that 'no medium has ever lifted tables, 
or chairs, but by mat-rial agencies, no one has ever been 
tied or unti 1 1 by spirits, no one has ever heard the knock 



*"Spiritu.ili!-m." Page 353. 



52 CRTHCDOX^ vs . CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

of a spirit, and no one has ever spoken through the 
power of a spirit other than his own,"' is very well re- 
butted by well authenticated evidence in Dr. Mason's 'Tele- 
pathy and the Subliminal Self/ "" 

But of course, as has been intimated in the chapter on 
Black Art, many of the demonstrations narrated in the 
book are accomplished by practices forbidden in the word 
of God. 

Take for instance the Planchette performances in 
which Gov. Stuyvesant wrote a blaspln m ;us n e sage about 
an old pear tree, t 

So. it so eminent a gentleman as Dr. Hammond does 
deride the 1 doctrme of the ''Outpouring of the Spirit of 
God,' 1 an 1 rid cule Mr. Wesley's ideas of the ''demonstra- 
tion of the Sp'rit" 1 that accompanied the wonderful revivals 
of President Finney, Alexander Campbell and Dr. Red- 
field, yet the humble Christian believes the Pentecostal 
seriron preached by the Apostle Peter, that the prophecy 
of Joel was fulfilled and the promise is to us and to our 
children. (See Acts. 2:39.) 

But all these great men knowing of the power of the 
Devil to mimic, instructed their audiences to neither seek 
or reject it. It is true, many good and sincere people are 
hysterical. This is especially true of women, and probably 
accounts for the fact that Christian Scientists are mostly 
women. 

But to the psychical scholar the joy and peace are ad- 
mitted as guests of the soul. Take the emotional nature 
from man and he would become a Stoic. 

The light of this century will not admit of stoicism. 
Joy moves as well as grief and the philosopher is not of- 
fended at its demonstration. While mirth excites laughter, 
human experience and the Bible teaches that laughter tills 
the mouth of God's people. 

"When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, 
we were like 1 them that dream, then was our mouth rilled 
with laughter and our tongue with singing: thee, said they 



'•Teleput .y. ' Ca. u LJi*. 



ORTHODOXY. 53 

among the heathen, the Lord has done great things for 
them."— Ps. 126:1-3. 

No one censures the child when he dances for joy 
upon the receipt of a new book or toy; it is natural. 

No one took exceptions to the great enthusiasm that 
took possession of the great statesmen at the great con- 
ventions that nominated Abraham Lincoln, or W. J. Bryan 
to the presidency of the United States ; weeping, laughing, 
shouting, jumping and many other demonstrations of great 
joy were perfectly admissible; it was patriotic. In the 
great emancipation of the slaves of sin from the powers 
of Hell in the days of Wesley, Finney, Alexander Camp- 
bell, Peter Cartwright, and Redfield, the shouting, scream- 
ing, crying, laughing, falling, were the effects of religion 
on the human body. Religious emotions are just as legi- 
timate as the patriotic, or social, for in fact they are all 
embraced in Orthodoxy. 

Herein is explainable the different tenets among 
Orthodox churches, as well as many of their reform 
issues. 

Under what is scientifically termed "suggestion" 
Baptists declare for emersion, Presbyterians for sprinkling, 
while Methodists and Congregationalists allow the candi- 
date his choice in the mode of baptism. Psedo Baptists 
introduce feet washing, Christians insist on every 
Sunday for communion, and the Salvation Army believes 
in military terms and a uniform, yet these and many other 
denominations are all admitted by the unsectarian to be 
Orthodox. 

"Suggestion" scientifically accounts for the help the 
Christian gets in using the "Means of Grace" which em- 
braces not only the ordinances of the Church, such as bap- 
tism, and the Lord's Supper; but preaching, praying, and 
singing and congregating which are also in perfect harmony 
with the teaching of Scripture. "He that believeth and is 
baptized shall be saved." — Mk. 16:16. "This do in remem- 
brace of me"— Luke 22:19; I Cor. 11:21, 25. "It pleased 
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that be- 
lieve." — I Cor. 1:21. "Men ought always to pray. "- -Luke 



54 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

lcS:l. ;i Pray one for another." — J as. 5:16. "Sing ye to 
the Lord."— Ex. 15:21; Isa. 12:5; Ps. 80:4. "Speaking to 
yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, sing- 
ing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord." — Eph. 
5:19. "I was glad when they said. Let us go into the 
house of the Lord." — Ps. 122:1. "Not forsaking the as- 
sembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some 
is."— Heb. 10:20. 

God honors them that honor his Word, and those that 
are obedient to the commands of the Bible will prove that 
there is virtue in them. 

God does "Pour out his Spirit" upon His worshipers,. 
and, as Dr. Mason scientifically expresses it the "Sublimi- 
nal Self" is the controlling being and it is wonderful what 
Illuminations come to the soul. 

It is sometimes termed getting "warmed up" when ap- 
plied to jjublic speakers, but the Christian speaks of it as 
the Holy Ghost and fire. 

The Harbinger of Christ said, "He shall baptize you 
with the Holy Ghost and fire."— Matt. 3:11. 

Specific acts of praying should be performed with the 
eyes closed that the "primary self" may retire and give the 
Holy Spirit the control of the "Subliminal Self," then we 
can demonstate what the poet was singing: 

"There is a place where Jesus sheds 
The oil of gladness on our heads, 

A place than all beside more sweet, 
It is the blood-bought mercy seat. 

There is a scene where spirits blend, 

And friend holds fellowship with friend. 

Though sundered far by faith they meel 
Around one common mercy seat. 

There, there, on eagle's wings we soar, 

And time and sense molest no more. 
And Heaven comes down, our souls to greet. 
» While glory crowns the mercy seat." 

How favorable also is this wonderful phenomena. 
Take for instancr that verse of the. old hymn that brings 
to us the Love of God in the vicarious atonement, a doctrine 



ORTHODOXY. 55 

that Christian Science and other infidel religions deride. 



L S> J 



"Jesus sought me when a stranger 

Wandering from thy fold, O, God, 
He to rescue me from danger 

Interposed his precious blood. 
On the cross he died to save me, 

Rose to plead my cause above: 
Henceforth all my life I give thee, 

Vanquished by such wonderous love." 

Often men and women are converted by a hymn, the 
words of which so portray the wonderful love of God to us 
as an unmerited favor, when the ''Subliminal Self" pre- 
dominates and is wooed to the surface by the harmony of 
the music. 

Is it to be wondered at that men and women submit 
humbly to God, by leaving their wicked, rebellious career 
and swearing eternal allegiance to Heaven? Love begets 
love, and when the slumbering "Subliminal Self" is aroused 
to see the truth, that God loves him, love to God with every 
attribute of His eternal holy Divine nature is planted in 
the willing heart, by the Holy Ghost. "Being born again, 
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word 
of God which liveth and abideth forever. "—Peter 1:23. 

The Christian Science Sentinel. Jan. 18, 1900, nar- 
rates how even love to a woman cured a man from liquor 
and tobacco habits. After describing the cure of his wife, 
his reformation and healing of his own eyes, he adds the 
following significant paragraph: 

"My w T ife and I are members of the Mother Church, 
and our little girl is one of the busy bees. We are doing 
well and am thankful every day that we were lead to the 
blessed Truth. I have thought often very kindly of yon 
as being the one who first gave me the true thoughts." 

How shallow must be the love of one who professes to 
love Jesus and will not quit his tobacco and wdiisky! 

Being of one accord and in one place was the secret 
of the pentecostal shower to the little company of one hun- 
dred and twenty at Jerusalem. How true it is of the 
general assemblies of the Church today in her conventions 



56 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

and conferences. What power! What light! Oh, let us 
as a Church anil as individuals expect the "promise of the 
Father" that Jesus said he would send, and tarry at the 
throne of grace till He comes, and receive Him as He 
comes, then every fiber of our being, "primary self" and 
"subliminal self' will vibrate harmoniously to the will of 
God while here we stay, and when we've suffered and ful- 
filled all His righteous will, we'll be transported to the 
scene of the beatific vision discribed by the on^ that was 
"in the Spirit on the Lord's day." 

"After this I beheld and lo, a great multitude which 
no man could number of all nations and kindreds, and 
people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the 
Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 
and cried with a loud voice saying, Salvation to our God 
which sitteth upon His thone, and unto the Lamb. 

"And all the angels stood around about the throne and 
about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the 
throne on their faces, and worshiped God, saying, Amen: 
Blessings and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and 
honor and power, and might be unto our God forever and 
ever. Amen." — Rev. 7:9-12. 

"Oh spread the tidings round, 

Wherever man is found, 

Wherever human hearts and human woes abound, 

Let every Christian tongue proclaim the joyful sound: 

The Comforter has come ! 

The Comforter has come, 
The Comforter has come, 
The Holy Ghost from Heaven, 
The Father's promise given; 
Oh, spread the tidings round, 
Wherever man is found, 
The Comforter has come ! 

Sing till the echoes fly, 
Above the vaulted sky, 
And all the saints above. 
To all below reply 
In strains of endless love. 
The song that ne'er will die, 
The Comforter has come ! 



ORTHORDOXY. 57 



The Comforter lias come, 
The Comforter has come, 
The Holy Ghost from Heaven, 
The Father's promise giv'n; 
Oh spread the tidings round, 
Wherever man is found, 
The Comforter has come ! 




^^fc 



CHAPTER VI. 



•CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" WORSHIP. 

"The true worshipers shall worship the 
Father in spirit and in truth." — 
John 4:23. 

^^*Q some it may seem saereligious to attack forma - 
II lism, under its various guises and garbs, especially 
a sect as well organized and presenting such a fine 
exterior as Christian Science. 

"Little hope exists of freeing those already entangled, 
but it is highly important to prevent others from falling 
into so plausible and luxurious a snare, and to show that 
Christianity is not' to be held responsible for aberrations 
of the imagination which belong exclusively to no race, 
clime, age, party, or creed.*" 

But courageous old Joshua threw down the challenge 
to the Captain of the Lord's host with the boldness of a 
lion, "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" 

It is not the purpose of this chapter to attack the 
sincerity of its members. There is no doubt but there is 
a large percentage of its membership composed of those 
who are earnest and sincere. As they have not excluded 
the Bible, nor singing, nor praying, together, some may re- 
ceive some spiritual help, but of course that would, con- 
scientiously followed up, lead them to a church that was 
not so pronounced against such things. Their attitude 
also in reform movements is not to be disdained as in- 
dividuals or as an organization. But it is the deceptive 
manner, in which the candid and sincere are lead, from a 
proper reverence for God and true devotion, to idealism 
and mysticism. 

From the fact that this sect is well organized it only 
becomes more alarming to know it is opposed to Orthodox 
religion. 

m. M. Buckley, LL. D 



60 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

Concerning their congregation, churches and member- 
ship, Judge Ewing said in his lecture Oct. '5, 1899: 

"May I tell you something Christian Science has ac- 
complished in fifteen years'? There are 500,000 adherents,, 
and over 400 congregations. In the last five years it has 
built many churches ranging in cost from $1,000 to $200,- 
000. The membership has been drawn from all the 
churches.' 7 

It has a novel form peculiar to itself, and takes its 
rank among the churches of the world. The church direc- 
tory in the hotels and restaurants of the various cities con- 
tain similar notices to the following one copied from the 
Peoria, 111., directory: 

"First Church of Christ, Scientist. 

Sunday Services, 10:45 a. m. 

Sunday School, 12 m. 

Wednesday Evening Meeting, 7:30 p. m." 

It claims to have no creed, but it has what is called, irt 
"Science and Health," a "brief exposition of the religious 
tenets of Christian Science." To those six short paragraphs 
containing a syllabus of its doctrines, each one must sub- 
scribe, to become a member of the Mother Church, or any 
of its sub-churches. The Mother Church alone has a 
membership of 15,000. 

The 51st revised edition of "Science and Health" of the 
1890 copyright has the following question and answer. 
Page 455: 

"Q. Are doctrines and creeds a benefit to man? 

A. The author subscribed to an orthodox creed in 
early youth, and tried to adhere to it until she caught the 
first gleam of that which interprets God as above mortal 
view. This sense rebuked humam beliefs, and gave the 
spiritual import of all things from the Divim 4 Mind ex- 
pressed through science. Since then her highest creed has 
been Divine Science, which reduced to human apprehen- 
sion, she named Christian Science." 

Could any one be blamed for not wanting to regard 
••Science and Health" as a sacred book when it has to be re- 
vised and rc-written and re-copyrighted again and again? 



62 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

Or can Christian ministers be censured for barring Chris- 
tian Science readers from their ministerial associations, on 
the ground of unorthodoxy, for subscribing to a belief that 
such utterances as the above came from inspired lips, and 
form a part of what they call a sacred book? 

As everything is conducted under the auspices of the 
Mother Church at Boston, every sermon throughout the 
domains of the sect is exactly the same for the Sunday 
morning service. As it has been the privilege of the 
author to attend their meetings it may be interesting to 
the reader to u;ei the form. Take for example the services 
of March 25. 1900. 

It was a damp, dismal morning, but at 10:45 a. m.. the 
auditorium of the handsome church was well rilled with a 
congregation of several hundred people that seemed gay 
and worldly, rather than joyous and devout. 

The church, a magnificient structure, erected at a cost 
of $80,000, and built after the Roman style of architecture, 
was lo *a v 1 in a beautiful part of the city. 

Its massive stone wall was decorated upon the outside 
with escutcheons engrave 1 with Scriptural mottoes, one of 
which is a follows: "The people that walked in darkness 
have seen a grc'it light." The very mode of constructing 
the bud lings as wed as the ur>e of the mottoes is to im- 
pr. S3 the world that Christian Science is the only true 
rehgior. Even "Science and Health" is claimed to be a 
sacred hock. 

The inside was elegantly finished and ornamented. 
having all the movrn improvements and c nveniences. 
Besides Scriptural mottoes upon the wallr, over the rostrum y 
having elegant chairs and a double pulpit, in large gilt, 
letters was the following inscription: 

"Christianity is again demonstrating the life that is 
truth, and the truth that is life.— Rev. Mary Baker Eddy." 

The program was as follows: 

( )verture, — Pipe organ solo. 

Readers enter, taking seats. 

First re i ler announced the hymn and lined the first 
verse and the congregation joined heartily in singing it to 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE WORSHIP. 63 

the tune, "Woodworth." It will be noticed that in this 
hymn, as in most of them, the sentiment is right, but Chris- 
tian Science "light" makes the hymn mean, as it does the 
Bible, just what the "Science 7 ' means. 

"Oh sometimes gleams upon our sight, 

Through present wrong, the eternal Right: 

And step by step since time began, 
We see the steady gain of man. 

Through the harsh noises of our day, 
A low sweet prelude finds its way: 

Through clouds of doubt, and creeds of fear. 
A light is breaking calm and clear. 

Henceforth my heart shall sigh no more. 

For olden time and holier shore; 
Grid's love and blessing then and there, 

Are n >w and here and everywhere." 

—J. G. Whittier. 

After the singing the first reader announced and read 
a Scripture lesson from Matt, loth., at the close of which 
all joined in silent prayer, congregation sitting in their 
seats. During the painful silence the clock relieved the 
oppressive stillness by chiming eleven. The audible repe- 
tition of the Lord's prayer with the spiritual interpreta- 
tion from "Science and Health 1 * closed that part of the 
ceremony . 

The following was the manner of the performance, 
each reader reciting a clause alternately: 

Second Reader from: First Reader from: 

— Bible. —"Science and Health' 7 

Our Father, which art Our eternal Supreme Being 

in Heaven, all harmonious, 

Hallowed be thy name. Forever glorious. 

Thy king lorn come ! Ever-present and omnipotent. 

Thy will b j doni in earth Thy supremacy appears 

as it is in Heaven. as matter disappears. 

Give us this 'lay our (rive us ea.ch day 

daily bread; the living bread; 

And forgiv. us o ir l.-'o.r. And truth trill destroy 

as we forgive oar debtorc. the claims of error. 



64 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

And lead us not Lead by spirit mortals arc 

into temptation, freed 

but deliver us from evil: from sickness, sin and death: 
For thine is the kingdom, For thou art all substance, 
and the power, and the Life, Truth, and Lore, for- 

glory, forever. ever. 

Amen. So be it. 

The above form of the prayer is taken from the 51st 
revised edition of "Science and Health," but the 1894 copy- 
right, 183rd edition, is quite different, beginning "Our 
Father-Mother God, etc.," and having no "Amen — so 
mote it be" — at the close. These are strange transmuta- 
tions to occur to an inspired book. 

After singing another hymn the first reader announced 
the sermon-subject, which for that morning was Unreality. 

Before the sermon the 39th Psalm was read by read- 
ers and congregation responsively. The sermon was then 
performed in the following novel manner. 

The Bible citations were read by the second reader 
and the spiritual interpretations from ''Science and Health" 
was read by the first reader, alternately: 

UNREALITY. 
I. 

Second Reader: First Reader: 

-The Bible. -"Science and Health" 

Genesis, 5 :3 ; 515 :20, 28-32 : 

Genesis, 6:5-8; 517:23; 

Genesis, 7:1,21-13. 536:19-21; 

543:2; 

507 : 11- 17. 

II. 

Job, 15:14, 25, 28-31, 33,34. 471:29; 

198:5-25; 
196:15. 
And so on through five divisions of the subject. 
The solo was a hymn by Mrs. Eddy and rendered by a 
gentleman. After singing another hymn the first reader 
concluded the services by readings benedictioB from "Sci- 



66 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

ence and Health." without an Amen. 

Sunday school followed immediately conducted simi- 
larly to the schools of orthodox churches, in which the little 
philosophers were taught that "All is God." It was a pity 
to see the little innocent minds polluted with their irre- 
ligious sophistry. 

During the above exercises the scarcity of men was 
perceptible. However, it was noticeable that the form of 
orthodoxy was almost entirely reversed. Women took the 
lead. 

Men were permitted subordinate positions. The first 
reader seemed to read from "Science and Health" more 
reverently than the second reader did from the Bible. Tru- 
ly their manner was such as to give more credit to "Sci- 
ence and Health" than it did to the bible and the effect on 
the subliminal self could be accounted for in this very 
thing. No wonder they are ready to accept Divine Science 
as a synonym of the Holy Grhost. But it is only an imita- 
tion and spurious in its effect upon the moral nature. 

For formalism and sectarianism, for church pomp and 
church power. Christian Science outrivals Catholicism in 
its worst stage, and will only need the time to develop into 
what Romanism was in the Dark Ages. 

Judge Ewing once put to a Dakota congregation a 
problem something like this: 

"If 3 Christian Scientists can demonstrate 30 Scien- 
tists in 3 years, how many can those 30 demonstrate in 10 
years?" 

It seems like it would be a rapid growth to see 1.000 
Christian Scientists where but a few years before there 
had been but three, hence the alarmingly rapid growth of 
t lis blasphemous denomination ought to startle every true 
worshipper of Jesus. 

The problem that confronts tin 1 Orthodox Church is: 

If ONE Christian Scientist can demonstrate 500.000 
Scientists in 25 years, how many can those 500,000 demon- 
s' rate in a century? Or in other words, where will the 
( ) t'lodox Church be at tln^ end of the next century? 

T te following stanzas from Prof. Weimar's poem on 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE WORSHIP. 67 

"The Limitation of the Spirits' Knowledge" is very appli- 
cable to the Christian Science sect. 

Scientists never question the mistakes of their Science, 
"How can there be mistakes here?" they say. 
They apologize for what they cannot "demonstrate," 
And continue to believe what they can't reveal. 
"Matter" and "Death" are classed with the "Higher 

Problems." 
They don't know it is like old Roman religion,— 
Even practiced like theirs in cathedrals— 
Nevertheless it changes from year to year. 

How Christian Science converts men to Skeptics, 
Again and again demonstrated I find; 
Outward, with fine human blended feelings, 
But, hearts like their heads, hard and cold. 
These modern, unscientific interpreters 
Would cut off life's best, truest hopes, 
By unnerving and emasculating the Bible, 
In attempting to canonize "Science and Health." 

Woe, woe to to the Healers and Reiders 
Who handle Gods word with deceit: 
Who compass the United States, Sir, 
One proselyte (wealthy) to greet! 
Oh God, send them the Prophet Elijah, 
To turn their hearts back from the worst 
And may they accept Jesus Christ 
Instead of the Baal, at Boston. 

— Reconstructed. 



CHAPTER VII. 



SECTS AND CREEDS. 

"In vain do they worship me, teaching 
for doctrines the commandments of 
men."— Mark 7:7. 

+fT^ OW often have I, in this great city stood gazing 
It | upon the sea of humanity as it throngs the thor- 
oughfares like the current of a mighty river, 
rushing on to the ocean of eternity! 

Fifteen years ago, I used to stand and look upon the 
busy rushing crowd, issuing from offices, stores, factories, 
and various places of commercial interest, and contemplate 
the end of it all. 

The swift vicissitudes of the changeful years have 
materially modified my opinions. 

Orthodox religion was then but a green spot in my 
memory Its ecstatic thrills were replaced by the scorn- 
ful hate of the sceptic, and I wondered if to all these it 
seemed as dark and gloomy as it did to me. To be born, 
live, suffer, die and what then? All was blank. It seemed 
but a leap in the dark. 

I thought of the days of my youth when I accompanied 
my parents, and brothers and sister to church and Sunday- 
school, and often from the depths of my sin-polluted soul, 
I would cry out, O days of my youth and innocency come 
back ! 

Days of sw r eet rapture when belief in God, in the Bible 
and in prayer caused the chords of my pure, childish, 
tender heart to vibrate with the love of J esus awakening 
heaven's symphonies in my soul ! 

In after years, when my heart was hardened by sin, 
my mind darkened by infidelity and my conscience suffer- 
ing the pangs of guilt and remorse, how often would mem- 
ory revert to those happy scenes and I would long to bathe 
my weary soul in the pure Fountain of Life. 



SECTS AND CREEDS' 69 

At this juncture in my life's history Christian Science 
appeared, with its "signs and wonders" to attest that it 
was the rediscovered religion of Jesus Christ and of course 
I was not tardy in embracing it. 

It taught that the principles of Orthodox religion as 
taught by Luther, Calvin, Knox, Finney, and Wesley with 
their hosts of followers, were only a will-o'-the-wisp 
that leads into the mists of superstition and darkness. 

A fair investigation and a sincere desire to become a 
better man proved to me, as it will to all, that it was but a 
traveresty on religion and extremely sectarian in practice. 
This is especially manifest in their intolerant spirit toward 
orthodox believers, or toward each other who may chance 
to differ in any particular from their founder. 

Christian people have seen the error of Spiritualism, 
Mormonism, etc., but Christian Science is a new garb for 
Anti-Christ. 

" "Schools" in religion and medicine are prone to 
magnify their own achievements and depreciate those of 
others. Nor does this always spring from dishonesty; 
since faith often prevents that scrutiny which would reveal 
reasons for discounting testimony or appearances, while 
suspicion would lead to a treatment of the reports of others 
the opposite of that accorded to their own."* 

Probably, among the many wily arts of the enemy of 
all righteousness, none is more subtle, in deceiving the 
children of God, and thus destroying their usefulness, than 
sectarianism. 

Sectarianism is wrong, radically wrong, and is an evi - 
dence of moral pollution in the soul of those who are af- 
fected with it. Hence it is a blot on the moral nature. 
This is true of us either as individuals or societies. Let us 
investigate the subject under two heads: 

1. Applied to societies; 

2. Applied to individuals. 

According to Webster, sectarianism consists in "the 
disposition to dissent from the established church or pre- 



J. M. Buckley. LL. P. 



70 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

dominant religion and to form a new sect." 

The root of the world is from seco, to cut off. 
Among the Jews the principal sects were the Pharisees. 
Sadducees, Essenes, and Zealots. 

Independent thought among philosophers and states- 
men, leading to different schools and parties, may be con- 
ducive to benignant results, but in religion quite the 
opposite is evident as proven by history. If Columbus, 
Galileo, Edison, or Lincoln had never lived we might all be 
crowded on foreign soil, believing the earth to be flat and 
stationary, with the planets and stars revolving around it 
as taught by Ptolemy; we might still be harboring the 
superstitions of the dark ages, with all their inconveniences 
and terrors. We are now reaping the benefits, with which 
these men of independent thought and fearless action, 
have blessed the world, and will yet bless the unborn 
generations, by encouraging and promoting advancement 
in science and civilization. 

'•Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure sky, 
For thou art Freedom's now and Fame's, 

One of the few the immortal names. 

That were not born to die.' 1 

On the other hand, what is, in the strict sense of the 
word, a sect in religion, has been a blot on society and a 
stench in the nostrils of God. 

The Sadducees took from "the words of the prophecy" 
even denying the resurrection from the dead, and said, 
"There is neither angel nor spirit." They never had any 
more beneficent influence on the world than the average 
infidel of the present day. Their liberalism necessarily 
made them sharply opposed to Jesus, whom they hated as 
a fanatic. They rapidly disappeared from history after 
the first century. 

Sectarians are always extremists and very intolerant 
in their views. Of this sort were the Zealots. They arose 
under the leadership of one Judas in the days of Herod. 
They expected an earthly Messiah, and were insubordinate 
to the powers that be— a fault of some extremists today. 
Their fate may be learned by reading Acts. 5:37. "After 



sects and creeds. 71 

this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the tax- 
ing, and drew away much people after him: he also 
perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dis- 
persed." 

The Essenes were another religious sect, that lived and 
died for themselves alone. In their extreme nicety, they 
forbade marriage and increased by adopting children— an 
approach to which we find amongst the adherents of social 
purity, so-called today. Their life was ephemeral and com- 
paratively useless. 

The Pharisees, with their vain traditions such as the 
washing of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and of 
tables, teaching them for doctrines, were rebuked by the 
Son of God as hypocrites, doing little things and neglect- 
ing the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and 
faith. 

Hear His awful denunciation of them: "Woe unto 
you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye shut up the 
kingdom of Heaven against men; Woe unto you scribes 
and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited 
sepulchers which indeed appear beautiful outward, but 
within are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness; 
Woe unto you scribes, Pharisees hypocrites ! for ye com- 
pass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is 
made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than 
yourselves; Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can 
ye escape the damnation of hell?" — Mat. 23. 

What shall we then say of modern sectarianism whose 
adherents say, we no doubt, "are the people" and "wisdom 
shall die" with us. — Job 12:2. Have we not a religious 
sect among us today, that claims to be the original Apos- 
tolic church, and is so sure its membership is the only 
chosen and elect of God, and believe contact with other 
people so polluting, that the dead are ostracised? 

Religious sectarians may be known by their "holier 
than thou" attitude. It affects them them in every walk 
of life. 

The Pharisees and Essenes were especially noted for 
their prudery and affected scrupulousness in their associa- 
tions. 



72 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

In a relig'o is sense of the word, sectarianism, it has 
been usually applied to the innocent party. 

Catholics charged Lutherans with heresy; Episco- 
palians charged th^ Methodists with being dissenters; and 
in the days of Christ the Pharisees cried out, "What new 
doctrine is this?" (Mark 1:27,) when the trouble was 
with themselves. They had drifted so far from the first 
principles of true religion that they did not recognize its 
true teachers. The Apostles also were assailed as sectar- 
ians; in Acts 28:22 it is written, "For as concerning this 
sect everywhere it is spoken against." 

In each case above mentioned, in the lapse of centur- 
ies the primitive organizations, departed, in practice at 
least, from "the ancient land-marks which thy fathers 
have set." 

The intolerant and bigoted spirit was apparent in the 
treatment of the reformers and promulgators of the true 
and original doctrine. Christ and the Holy Apostles suf- 
fered martyrdom at the hands of the Jews for preaching 
"Moses and the prophets." 

In the beginning of the Reformation, John Huss, 
Martin Luther, Melancthon, and many others were de- 
nounced as heretics, and some of them burned at the stake 
by the Church of Rome, for opposing the sale of Indulg- 
ences and heralding the gospel of Justification by faith. — 
Rom. 5:1. 

The Church of England, in a more enlightened age, 
manifested her intolerant spirit by denouncing Metho- 
dists as Dissenters and Ranters, for daring to forsake cold 
ritualism, and embrace the gracious gospel of experiencial 
religion, whereby the believer becomes sanctified wholly in 
this life, (see I Thess. 5:23) and enters into that "Rest 
that remains for the people of God," (Heb. 4:9), a doctrine 
preached by Wesley, Whitefield, and Finney and per- 
meated all their hymnology. 

"Breathe, O, breathe bhy loving Spirit, 

Into every troubled breast; 
Let us all in Thee inherit ; 

Lot us ti nd that second rest." 



SECTS AMD CREEDS. 73 

And so the rise of many modern evangelical churches 
might be traced, but the thought may be perceived that 
the history of tne different denominations of the world, 
proves that the reformatory ones are not sectarian as de- 
fined by Webster, while the old church is the formal, 
worldly and popular one. 

And yet as a pretext for the existence of Christian 
Science religion, in his lecture under the auspices of the 
Mother Church, Oct. 5, 1899, Hon. William G. Ewing said: 

"It w T as years after I had been rescued from the cold 
clutch of death, by Christian Science, before I could give 
up the early lessons learned of God, life, death, Hell, and 
Heaven."**** 

"If John Calvin had not questioned the beliefs of his 
fathers,, there would have been no Presbyterian church ; if 
Martin Luther had not raised his mighty voice against the 
beliefs and practices of his father, the world would never 
have rejoiced in the light and glory of the Reformation; if 
the Wesleys had not forsaken the tenets of their fathers 
the sublime devotions and heroic sacrifices of the Metho- 
dist circuit rider would never have gladdened, purified and 
sanctified the humble homes of England and America." 

One may see that Christian Science is unlike the 
formal church; it is not so much as a departure from the 
doctrines of true Christianity, and does not contain its first 
principles, and denounces those of the present era that 
adhere to the original tenets of the Apostolic Church ; yet 
it inconsistently uses orthodox hymns. 

In these days of sects, creeds, and dogmas, the "peril- 
ous times" of New Testament prophecy are upon upon us. 
•'Men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, 
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, 
unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false 
accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are 
good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures 
more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but 
denying the power thereof," and from whom we are com- 
manded to turn away. — II Tim. 3:1-5. 

The same inspired penman also said "The Spirit 



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ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 



speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall de- 
part from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and 
doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy; having 
their conscience seared with a hot iron." — I Tim. 4:1-3. 

Formalism would not have been more plainly desig- 
nated, if the Holy Apostle had inscribed on the sacred 
page, with pen of iron: 

Anti-Christ in 1900! 

Dowieism and Christian Science ! 




T3w 



SECTS*"- CREEDS. 

The mask of Dowieism is torn aside and the wolf in 
sheep's clothing is revealed, but beneath the beautiful ex- 
terior of the other modern sect, whose coming is after 
the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and 
lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteous- 
ness in them that perish." (II Thess. 2:9, 10.) may be seen 
the subtle foe that strikes at the very heart of Orthodoxy. 
— Christian Science. 



SECTS AND CREEDS. 75 

The great problem facing the Christian Church in the 
present century is, How may sectarianism be eliminated 
from among us? 

This brings us to the second division of our subject. 
viz: Sectarianism in Individuals. 

The problem solved and practiced would usher in the 
millennium, but we believe the manner in which the Lord 
Jesus Christ begins with His Church, here on the earth, is 
with us as individuals. 

So let us see to it first, that we do not, as individuals, 
let the Devil make us believe that the instrument, used in 
the hands of a merciful God, to save us from perdition, is 
The Church. 

If he accomplishes this, we become ensnared with 
sectarianism, which is a moral pollution, a disease of the 
soul, that breaks out in various forms, among the chief of 
which we note: Bigotry, Rabidism, and finally Secession. 

When Bigotry appears, the patient is seized with a 
kind of obstinate moral blindness that makes him think 
the tenets of his church exactly right, to the exclusion of 
ihose of all other churches. This fills him with prejudice 
against all other denominations. 

How often is this true with the minister ! A spirit of 
intolerance is engendered that often causes him to wage 
war on sister churches, and instead of realizing the benefi- 
ficent effects of the Gospel on his own soul and the souls of 
his hearers, he only aggravates the disease of his own 
moral nature and prepares the way for its second phase. 

Love begets love. We certainly could not blame any- 
one for becoming greatly attached to those who helped to 
pull him out of the fire. Usually converts assimilate with 
the people who gave them the light, but that need not lead 
them to think they are the only people upon whom God 
smiles. 

The Bigot never tires of lauding his own creed and de- 
nouncing all others, and soon his case assumes a more 
malignant form, which might be diagnosed as Rabidism. 

The dictionary does not license the use of the word, 



76 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

but the Bible does. In Galatians 5:15 we are warned of 
the malady. Says the Apostle, "but if ye bite and devour 
one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of 
another." 

Persons in this stage are deceived, thinking it a 
symptom of spiritual health and vigor known as Radicalism. 

Radicalism is a grace that causes the true Christian 
to adhere to the root cr original doctrines of God, but 
Rabidism causes the afflicted person, like a canine in a 
a virulent state of the rabies, to attack everybody whose 
book of notions does not tally with his, and in some cases 
the notion book is bigger than his discipline or Bible. 
There is a panacea prescribed by the Holy Ghost which, 
if taken in this stage, will produce a permanent cure. The 
prescription can be obtained by reading Rom. 14:5. "Let 
every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."' 

One reaching this stage of the disease and unwilling to 
take the remedy, will continue as does the afflicted canine, 
snapping and biting, till its last and fatal form is reached 
and death ensues. 

Secession is spiritual hydrophobia. In this state the 
patient dies a horrible death. It is more familiarly known 
as Come-out-ism. 

They first come out from the church, and then come 
out from each other till they remind one of a knot of 
serpents hissing and biting at each other. The contor- 
tions, convulsions, and paroxysms, that result from their 
venomous bite, can only be healed by the "Balm of Gilead." 

Oh Lord, deliver us from sectarianism and heal the 
hurt of the daughter of thy people for Jesus* sake ! 

All progress in science or religion is due to the fear- 
less daring of men, who took a firm stand on the side of 
radical truth, even though opposed by the martial hosts of 
earth and hell. 

"Thrice blest is he to whom is given 

The instinct thai can tell. 
That G-od is on the field, when he 

Is most invisible. 



SECTS AND CREEDS. 77 

Blest too is he who can divine 

Where real right doth lie, 
And dares to take the side that seems 

Wrong to man's blindfold eye. 

Then learn to scorn the praise of men, 

And learn to lose with God; 
Fur Jesus won the world through shame, 

And beckons thee this road." 

It never was popular with the multitude to keep the 
""narrow way." The bigot, the fanatic, and the hypocrite 
may be found in the ranks of the visible church, but in 
Teality they are not members of the mystical body of Christ. 
They may belong to our human organization, but while in 
that moral condition, they never did and never wdll belong 
^'to the general assembly and church of the first born, 
which are written in Heaven." — Heb. 12:23. 

Cain professed as much religion as his brother Abel, 
but that did not save him. Judas w^as church-treasurer, 
but was yet the son of perdition. Lucifer may have been 
the chief singer in the choir of heaven, but he was cast 
down to hell. 

Truly it takes God to discern the hypocrite. They 
always have imposed themselves upon the church, and 
probably always w 7 ill. 

Let us not stumble over them into hell. Our souls 
"will never get fat by feeding itself on their crookedness. 

Shall we not, rather, get our eyes on the '*Lamb of God 
that taketh away the sin of the w T orld," and with fingers in 
our ears, like one of old, rush toward the celestial city, with 
the soul-thrilling shout, '"Life, life, eternal life !" 




CHAPTER VIII. 



FALLEN ANGELS. 

"And his tail drew the third part of the 
stars of Heaven and did cast them to 
the earth."— Rev. 12:3. 

^^*HE Bible reveals the fact that God has at least two 
II orders of creation — angels and men. Of the first 
there are two classses; those who kept their first 
estate and those who did not. Concerning the second it 
is a deplorable fact that all are fallen. Of such moment 
is it to be created and endowed with free will and account- 
ability. 

There is no doubt that somewhere back in the pre- 
historic ages, Satan was the highest archangel of Heaven. 
In the Holy Scripture there is an allusion made in the fol- 
lowing language: "How art thou fallen, O Lucifer, son of 
the morning !" — Isa. 14:12. 

When he lifted up himself and said. ''I will exalt my 
throne above the stars of God" and "I will be like the most 
High," Jesus Christ, the Prince of Heaven and rightful 
heir, marshalled the cherubic hosts that hurled him and 
his unholy consorts from the battlements of Heaven to the 
lake of fire. 

Him the Almighty P >wer hurled headl >ng, 

Flaming fr >m the eternal sky, 

With h'.cleous ruin and combustion, 

Down to bottomless perdition, 

There to dwell in adamantine chains and penal tire" 

Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms." 

Region of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 
And rest can never dwell, hope never conies 
That conies to all. but torture without end 
Still urges, and a fiery deluge fed 
With ever burning sulphur unconsumed: 
Sueh a place Eternal Justice had prepared 
For those rebellious 

Paradm Lost 



SO ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

Human wisdom would wish that he and his mighty 
legions had never been permitted to visit this terrestrial 
sphere; but through the high sufferance of the Almighty, 
not altogether understood by man, hellish skill constructed 
a mighty bridge from the infernal regions to the earth, and 
here, says the Apostle, "the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh 
about, seeking whom he may devour." 

But he, once passed, soon after, when man fell, 
Strange alteration, Sin and Death amain 
Following his track (such was the will of Heaven) 
Paved after him a broad and beaten way 
Over the cark abyss, whose boiling gulf 
Tamely endured a bridge of wonderous length 
From Hell continued, reaching to the utmost orb 
Of this frail world, by which the spirits perverse 
With easy intercourse pass to and fro 
To« tempt or punish mortals, except whom 
G-od and good angels guard by special grace." 

- Paradise Lost. 

This unconquerable foe, except "by the blood of the 
Lamb and the word of their testimony" is the one that 
waged war in Heaven, desolated Eden, and today is the 
archangel opposed to God and man. 

The Bible represents that we have not only Satan, 
"the Chief of many throned powers," to contend with, but 
Beelzebub, the prince of devils. Mammon, the God of this 
world, and legions of fallen angels, princes, potentates war- 
riors, once the s':ars of Heaven, now hell's egregious host, 
heated with the rage of hate; and scorn of pride, powers 
which none but the Omnipotent can foil, all besetting- 
man's pathway, 

"Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brocks," 

bent upon his destruction. 

At w T hat a disadvantage the race would be in the con- 
flict of life, if left without divine assistance ! Our Captain 
has said, "Lo I am with you always;" and of his angels, "Are 
they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to 
them who shall be heirs of salvation.*' If we fail to k ok 
for help from above we are sure to be defeated. 



FALLEN ANGELS. 81 

Angels our march oppose, 
Who still in strength excel, 
Our Secret, sworn eternal foes, 
Countless invisible. 

By all hell's host withstood 

We all hell's host o'erthrow; 
And conq'ring them through Jesus' blood 
We on to conquer go. " 

Man in his pristine beauty and power was unable to 
cope with this aw^ful foe, and shall we in our fallen state 
expect to be more successful when the enemy has added 
to his strength six thousand years' experience? 

Fallen angels are mighty pow r ers, but all perverted, 
and we must be warned, not only by their power, and 
might, and skill, but also of their wiles. 

Satan transforms himself into an angel of light in 
order to deceive mankind. Instead of their hideous 
shapes, so great is their power, that they transform them- 
selves and appear as beautiful angels of light to men. 
Hence says the Apostle, ''Such are false Apostles, deceit- 
ful w T orkers, transforming themselves into the Apostles of 
Christ. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers 
also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness.*' — 
II Cor. 11:15. 

Got them new names: wandering o'er the earth 

Through God's sufferance, for the trial of man 

By falsities and lies, the greater part 

Of mankind they corrupted to forsake 

God their creator, and the invisible 

Glory of Him that made them, to transform 

Oft to the image of a brute, adorned 

With guy religions full of pomp and gold 

And devils to adore for deities, 

Then were they known by various names. 

— Paradise Lost. 

One of his chief wiles is to play upon the credulity of 
the race. Many sincere people in 1900, have not discerned 
the fallen angel in his gorgeous garb of Christian Science. 
The devil's tactics now-a-days is to deceive by "lying won- 
ders," and through miracles of healing. (Kev. 16:14) cause 



62 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

the credulous and unwary to accept him and worship him. 
Ever since the rebellion in Heaven, his spirit has been 
to exalt himself above God, and cause his followers to wor- 
ship him as such. 

Especially was this true of the temptation in the 
Garden. 

On creations fair morn, when the Eden of earth was 
occupied by that blissful pair, with cunning artifice and 
angelic guile, proud Lucifer stole softly up to our grand- 
mother Eve, and whispered in her ear the lie that ruined 
man, prefaced by the arrogant statement that arraigned 
Jehovah himself, "Yea hath God said." 

In answer to the woman's reply he set forth, as he al- 
ways does, truth enough, though wrongfully applied, to 
lead her to disobey God. He told her they would "be as 
gods, knowing good and evil !" Out-reasoned by the wily 
foe, she did the deed when shared by Adam, that cursed 
the race and cursed the ground. 

Oh how much better never to hdve known the evil, 
but only the good. 

Satan triumphed over man and hell rang jubilant with 
fiendish horror ! Oh, if the eyes of our race had never 
been opened to the dark Fide of this picture ! 

God. in his love and Omniscience, could foresee the 
evil consequences of disobedience, and forwarn them but 
his eternal immutable law must in the very nature of 
things have its course. 

Sin brought every tear, every sigh, every groan into 
this world. It brought every disease, dug every grave and 
is the cause of every human woe. Surely, "the wages of 
sin is death." And yet God's eternal purposes were not 
overthrown, for Infinite Love devised the great scheme of 
redemption. 

But such is the fate of all who heed the advice of him 
whom the Stygian Council, commissioned to destroy the 
race and be revenged on God. 

Wuile in Heaven he coveted the place of the Son of 
God, and since making his way to earth his only hope of 



FALLEN ANGELS. 83 

destroying mankind eternally, is to exalt himself "above 
all that is called God." 

This is that spirit which is in the world and has been 
since God said, "the seed of the woman" should "bruise 
the serpent's head." 

While in the various religions of the world, he has 
chosen various guises, yet we see the same spirit opposing 
Christ and "showing himself that he is God." Hence his 
name Anti-Christ. 

His only hope of success is to divert the mind of man 
from the power of the only "name under Heaven, given 
among men, whereby we must be saved," the name of 
Jesus. 

His spirit may be discerned in every religion that 
exalts anyone to the seat of Christ our great "mediator of 
the new covenant." And such seems to be the aim and 
purpose of Christian Science. 




^^ 



CHAPTER IX. 



A KELIGIOUS FEAUD. 

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked."— 
Gal. 6:7. 

^^^HERE are many religions in the world and each 
II claims for its devotees a panacea for the ills and 
griefs incidental to this transitory existence, a cor- 
dial for the sin and misery and shame of man: 

"Plunged in a gulf of dark despair, 

We wretched mortals lay, 
Without one cheering beam of hope, 

Or spark of glimmering day." 

In our natural and unawakened state we are all more 
or less sensible of our pitiful condition, and hence have ac- 
cepted something that originated in the mind of man or 
Satan, or both combined, which we call religion. 

Everyone of them, and they are many, come far short 
of their claims, either for this world or that which is to 
come. 

But in the midst of all the creeds, shams, and sciences* 
of human or Satanic ingenuity — hear it, O earth and hear 
it all hell ! — Orthodoxy is now and always has been the 
only genuine religion of the Bible. (See Jas. 1:27.) 

Jehovah himself endorsed it in the ante-deluvian 
world and in the patriarchal ages, and does yet, for us 
"upon whom the ends of the world are come." Blessed be 
his name forever, and ever, and ever ! 

Pure religion is that which ministers to man in his 
three-fold nature, Physical, Mental and Moral, and brings 
to him present and eternal "joy unspeakable and full of 

glory 1 ' 

We do not wish to discuss Buddhism. Mormonism, 
Spiritualism, etc.. which are considered by the enlight- 
ened and more civilize ! nations of the globe, false re- 



A RELIGIOUS FRAUD. 85 

ligions, and have an immoral effect upon their adherents; 
but we wish to sound the tocsin that will call general at- 
tention to a new and modern "'sect"' of esoteric religion, 
that recently originated at Boston, Ma&s.. and is in its 
tenets but an improved compound of the various religions 
mentioned above, and sailing under the misnomer of 
Christian Science. 

It is spreading over the world like an infection, and 
its contaminating ed'e^ts on the moral man, is of such 
stupendous proportions as to demand the immediate atten- 
tion, and decisive action, of all Christian nations. That 
people everywhere, both in the church an 1 o.itof it, should 
be delude! is no marvel, for Satan is transformed. 

This is the angel of light in 1900! Let us beware of 
the "wolf in sheep's clothing.'"* 

That the system is a religion is not denied, for Web- 
ster defines religion as "Any system of faith and worship," 
but, we ask, is it true religion? 

While there are many true Christians that have gone 
to them for healing, and may be investigating the system, 
as a rule their membership is composed of these who have 
'"faith"' in its founder and worship either her or Satan 
transformed. This is evident to any who have attended 
their gatherings. "He who spake as never man spake," 
said, "By their fruits ye shall know them." Satan is a 
great imitator; so are his followers. 

There would be no need of a counterfeit dollar if there 
was no genuine money. There would be no counterfeit 
religions in the world if there was no genuine, and all this 
great ado in the world over religions only proves to the 
world that there is a genuine, a Gcd-given cne. 

We may know the works of God from the spurious 
imitations and "lying wonders'' of Satan. Here is where 
too many are led away and like Pharaoh, harden their 
hearts against the Gospel. All supernatural power is not 
from Heaven. It may come from hell, as it often does, to 
oppose God and array itself against His cause. 

There is quite an important sense in which we may 



86 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

say all evil that originates in the mind of man is instigated 
by the Devil. 

We believe the magicians and sorcerers that worked 
their miracles before Pharaoh in Moses' time was but an 
ancient expression of the modern follies of Spiritualism, 
Mormanism and Christian Science. 

"Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do 
these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, repro- 
bate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no 
further, for their folly shall be made manifest to all men 
as theirs also was." — II Tim. 3:8, 9. 

Orthodoxy encountered the enchantments of the 
magicians of Egypt, in ancient times, as it does today this 
modern magian science in America and other parts of the 
civilized world. The ancient sorcerers cast down their 
rods and they become serpents, but Aaron's rod swallowed 
them up every one. 

The magicians could also turn the Nile into blood and 
bring frogs upon the land of Egypt, but they did not have 
the power to stay the plagues as was manifested by ser- 
vants of God; so it is with every false religion; it will be 
lacking in that which will be the greatest blessing to man. 
The conjurers of Egypt could not produce the plagues 
of lice, flies, murrian, hail or darkness, neither could they 
stay the hand of the death angel, all of which were won- 
derfully demonstrated by the men of God before the king, 
till the magicians cried out, "This is the finger of God" 
and Pharaoh let the people go. 

These modern esoteric Christians who charge ex- 
horbitant prices to demonstrate their Black Art, may build 
Christian Science churches, have them beautifully en- 
graved without and within with Scriptural mottoes, and 
also hire a phophet of Baal to imitate the Holy Ghost, and 
y^t for all this there is yet to be shown a single instance 
where they have turned one soul "from darkness to light 
and from the power of Satan unto God." 

The Science may have made individuals rich, but it 
never gave one a title to a mansion in the skies that -Jesus 
has gone to prepare; it may have brought physical strength 



A RELIGIOUS FRAUD. 37 

to some diseased body, but it never healed a soul; it may 
have suddenly brought fame to a few individuals, but it 
never meets the great need of humanity, which is to bring 
in the new creation of "righteousness and true holiness." 
It has undoubtedly exalted its illustrious founder to a 
place above Jesus in the estimation of her followers but it 
will never take her nor her devotees to the throne, where 
Jesus and the "overcomes" will be permitted to sit with 
the eternal Father in His kingdom of glory. 

"Amazing grace, 'tis Heaven below 

To feel the blood applied, 
And Jesus, only Jesus, know 

My Jesus crucified. 

I see the new creation rise, 

I hear the speaking blood, 
It speaks, polluted nature dies, 

Sinks 'neath the crimson flood. 

The cleansing stream I see, I see, 

I plunge, and Oh, it cleanseth me; 

Oh, praise the Lord, it cleanseth me, 
It cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth me." 




CHAPTER X. 



'CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" DOCTRINE. 

"And they shall say to you, see here: 
or, see there: go not after them nor fol- 
low them."— Luke 17:23. 

/f^^ WING to the peculiarity of the age in which w r e live 
^\\/ — an age of culture and intellectual advancement in 
literature, art and science, an age when one may 
not be surprised at the announcement of any newly dis- 
coved invention, or some great achievement in art or 
science — we have become very credulous as a race. Under 
such circumstances, humbuggery is rife in the land. 
Charlantry, quackery and fraud, stalk abroad with 
wheedling words to deceive the public. 

Too often we see the credulous and unwary, gulping a 
diet that becomes indigestible. If this be so in the realm 
of the material world what must it be in the occult and 
spiritual? 

Religion is not free from impostors. It has never 
been in this world, and never will be. The Lord himself 
especially w T arns us of their appearance in the last days. 
"For there shall be false Christs and false prophets, and 
shall show great signs and wonders; in so much that, if it 
were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." — 
Mat. 24:24. 

The masked foe can do vastly more injury than the 
open enemy. So these enemies of the cross are doing- 
greater injury to Christianity, with their treacherous, 
"Hail Master" than the open defiance of skeptics, inhdels r 
and atheists combined. It is easier to detect the adversary 
in the open blasphemy of the ungodly, and the sneers of 
the scorner, than to discover him in his scientific and 
Scriptural garb. An ill seeming appearance would not 
succeed in hoodwinking the intelligence of the present age. 



'CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" DOCTRINE. 89 

The woman who introduced the corrupting leaven into 
the pure meal of the Gospel, has produced many discord- 
ants. She borrows the very phrases of the Holy Scripture 
to give her doctrines a religious aspect, which, if accepted,, 
sweep away the very foundation of Christian faith. 

The most subtle foe the Christian Church has to deal 
with in 1900, is Christian Science. While there is great 
tendency on the part of American and European nations 
to investigate the occult sciences, such as Spiritualism, 
Palmistry and other Sorceries, etc., the practice of which 
is clearly forbidden in the word of God, none has proven 
so hurtful to Orthodoxy as Christian Science. "Secret 
things belong unto the Lord our God : but those things 
which are revealed belong to us and our children forever," 
— Deut. 29:29. 

Since the origin of the sect and publication of its dis- 
cipline, "Science and Health," in 1875, 400 chartered 
churches have sprung up, having an enrolled membership 
of 500,000, and nearly 1,000,000, adherents. These start- 
ling facts ought to arouse every sincere Christian worker. 
The whole civilized world is flooded with its literature: 
183,000 editions of 'Science and Health' alone, and millions 
of minor works on the same subject are read, and their 
teachings believed by curious and credulous patrons, while 
10,000 teachers and practioners are growing rich. Churches, 
colleges and universities are springing up all over the 
world. In the great cities of Europe and America over 
5,000 people have attended a single lecture, conducted 
under the auspices of the Mother Church, at Boston, Mass. 
It has weekly and monthly publications, the chief of which 
are the Sentinel and the Journal. 

Physicians and ministers of the gospel, almost 
everywhere, find this modern therapeutic and religious 
travesty making inroads upon an unsuspecting public with 
its "Lo here ! or lo there !" Presbyterians, Baptists, Con- 
gregationalists and Methodists seem to be suffering most 
extensively from its unholy assaults, although all orthodox 
denominations are made to feel its mighty onward tread. 



90 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

"Ministers are astonished and grieved to find that some of 
their choicest minds and best people feel its power, and 
sooner or later they gradually drop out of the churches."* 
Certainly this subtle foe is the Anti-Christ of 1900, 
and is described in I John 4:1-3. 

In the Christian Science text book "Science and 
Health," we read that Mrs. Mary Glover Baker Eddy dis- 
covered the doctrines and founded the sect in 1866. She 
outlines its fundamental doctrines in the four following 
statements. 

I. God is all. 

II. God is good, God is mind. 

III. God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter. 

IV. Life, God — Omnipotent good deny death, evil, 
sin, disease — disease, sin, evil, death, deny good, Omnipo- 
tent God, Life, f 

"It is easily seen that the argument contained in the 
foregoing summary is: 

1. God is all, God is good, therefore all is good; hence 
there is no evil. 

2. God is all, God is spirit, therefore all is spirit; 
hence there is no matter. 

3. God is all, God is perfect, hence there is no imper- 
fection, no misery, no sickness, only that which seems to be 
so. The other propositions flow as corralaries from these 
three: we are spiritual, perfect, healthy, good, free, wise, 
immortal. The fallacy lies in the statement 'God is all,' 
which is affirmed in a sense that so identifies God with the 
universe, as to annihilate human free will and accountabil- 
ity." % 

"The metaphysics of Christian Science, like the rules 
of mathematics, is proven by inversion; for example: there 
is no pain in truth, and no truth in pain; there is no matter 
in mind, and no mind in matter; there art 1 no nerves in in- 



*Christian Science Sentinel. 

•^•Science and Health." Page 7. 

• Dr. Pattern in Chicago Inter-Ocean. 



"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" DOCTRINE. 91 

telligence, and no intelligence in nerves; there is no matter 
in life, and no life in matter." * 

To undertake the elucidatiom of the forgoing postu- 
lates, baffles the skill of the best logician, for they cer- 
tainly are undemonstrable, even by their inventor. She is 
•deserving of a patent upon them. 

In her "Statement of Christian Science," Ursula N. 
Oestefeld of Chicago, 111., frankly says: "Its statements 
.are in the main paradoxical, nonsensical, and incompre- 
nensible to those who hear them for the first time; an im- 
pression which is not entirely removed, after a further 
hearing." 

The statement is certainly true, for the doctrine will 
not bear the test of reason. There being an error in the 
premise, there must be an error in the conclusion. Let us 
-examine these doctrines: 

I. God is all. 

This first statement upon which all the others depend 
is but a modern statement of Gnosticism. 

"The Gnostics were a sect of philosophers that arose 
in the first ages of Christianity. Their doctrines, which 
harmonized with those of Pythagoras and Plato, held that 
all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are de- 
rived by successive emanations from the infinite fountain 
of Deity." (Webster.) 

Their views were but the medieval expressions of an- 
cient Oriental philosophy. Hence Christian Science is 
but a religious philosophy, of which Magianism is the^ 
warp, and Gnosticism the woof. 

"A ferocious system that leaves nothing above us to 
•excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness." 

Its author says the statement is self-evident. Not so. 
Earth, sea, and air, with their teeming millions of beings 
are not God, but his creatures, among whom is man, pos- 
sessed of free will and accountability. 

To confound God with the work of His hands, instead 
of elucidating the great problem of life, and revealing God 

^••Science and Health." Page 7. 



92 CRTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

to man, but befogs the whole scene, and less is understood 
of God and His divine will to man, than before accepting 
the presumptious statement that "God is all." 

II. Gcd is good, God is mind. 

This statement is true, only in so far as it applies to 
God. 

Man is a being created by God and endowed with intel- 
lect, sensibility and will. He is both material and Spirit.. 
In speaking of the great change that awaits us all, the 
Bible says, ''Then shall the dust return to the earth as it 
was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.'" — 
Ex. 1:2, 7. Again it says, ''But though our outward man 
perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.' 7 " 
—II Cor. 4:16. 

The inner man, the deathless spirit, unseen to mortal 
eye, is the ego, the real man, having an endowment that 
distinguishes him from the brute — a conscience which in- 
volves the free will and accountability of man. 

His mind maybe, and often is, the birth place cf terri- 
ble crime and fearful evil. In human history this is proven 
to be a hard fact, and is common in experience. Locks and 
bolts on our doors, jails and penitentiaries all over cur fair 
land, the crack of musketry and thunder of the cannon's 
roar, all remind us that this earth is not a paradise nor its 
inhabitants altogether angelic beings. 

III. God is Spirit: being all, nothing is matter. 
This erroneous statement is based on postulate I, which 

we have noticed so confounds God with the work of His 
hands as to annihilate His xjersonality. 

The statement that ''There is no matter" is contrary 
to common sense and antagonistic to the plainest facts of 
human experience. 

Judge Ewing said in his lecture before the Mother 
Church, Oct. 5th, 1899: 

"The very substratum of Christian Science, its initial 
principle, the premise of all its reasoning, is the declara- 
tion of, and insistance upon, the patent fact that God 
is all. This premise I venture to say no intelligent be- 
liever in God will presume to question; and yet if conced- 



"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" DOCTRINE. 93 

cd the genious of Bacon or Locke could not imperil the 
logic of Mrs. Eddy: viz. Christian Science."* 

To admit the premise with all its reasoning would, of 
course, lead us into the Mysticism of Christian Science, but 
with due defference to Hon. W. G. Ewing, the mass of "intel- 
ligent" Christian believers do not admit that "God is all" 
nor can it be established. 

"There is no matter" is the mystic "presto" of the 
"Science" juggler, that enables her to bring order out of 
chaos, light out of darkness, and health out of sickness, 
and gives her power to banish sin, sickness, and death 
from the earth. 

It is interesting to observe her Perigrinations from 
plane to plane, and from altitude to altitude in her scien- 
tific explorations. 

In "Science and Health" we are solemnly informed 
that "seasons will come and go with the change of tide, 
cold and heat, latitude and longitude;" and as the farmer 
rises with her to the higher plane of thought he will find 
that "these changes cannot effect his crop in seed time or 
narvest." 

By this token our rural friends in the frozen north 
will find it just as convenient and profitable to raise corn, 
potatoes and cucumbers in December as in May, and the 
Huckster of the frigid zone may pick and peddle straw- 
berries from snowy fields for Christmas dinner. 

"The mariner will find himself having dominion over 
the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air. What a splen- 
did arrangement? 

How nice to scud across the Atlantic behind a fine 
teamvof domesticated whales, or to make an aerial voyage to 
the Philippines astride our national bird ! How delight Jul 
to roost up among the stars, and take observations from 
Jupiter to Uranus !" 

Christian Science may not admit of a personal God nor 
a personal Devil, but the Bible does, and it is generally re- 
garded as the best authority. In the Bible it says. "He 

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"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" DOCTRINE. 95 

that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the 
Spirit."— Rom. 8:27. 

Twice the Apostle Paul exclaimed, 'Who hath known 
the mind of the Lord?" We might as well deny our own 
personality as to deny the personality of God. The Scrip- 
ture speaks of Him as a being possessed of intellect, sensi- 
bility and will, and this is the highest sense in which man 
was created in His "image" and after his "likeness." 

"It is here and here only that we find anything of a 
moral character." * 

Hence Christian worshipers deem it a right and rea- 
sonable service to worship God in prayer; but this false 
religion plainly declares that "God is not a person, and if 
we pray to him as a person, it will prevent us from letting 
go the human doubts and fears that attend all personality.""!* 

She further states, "We cannot bring out the practi- 
cal proof of Christianity while we make a personal God 
and a personal Devil our starting points. "J 

God, angels, and the "spirits of just men made per- 
fect" are the personalities that inhabit Heaven, and to- 
gether with the scenic beauties of the place, constitute the 
beatific vision that greets the eye of faith and ravishes 
the human soul and urges him on to joys supernal. 

"Dissolve me into ecstacies, 

And bring- all Heaven before mine eyes." 

These earthly dignities purloin Heaven's bliss, and offer 
as a substitute nothing but the transitory pleasures of earth 
and its glory. 

"For what is glory but the blaze of fame, 

The people's praise, if always praise unmixed? 

And what the people but a heard confused, 

A miscellaneous rabble who extol 

Things vulgar and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise? 

They praise and they admire they know not what. 

This is true glory and renown, when God, 
Looking on the earth with approbation, marks 



^••Hopkins' Outline Study of Mam." Page 249. 
+*'Science and Health. "Page 377. 
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96 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

The just man, and divulges him through Heaven 

To all his angels, who with true applause 

Kecount his praises: Thus he did to Job, 

Famous he was in Heaven, on earth less known, 

Where glory is false glory." 

— Paradise Lost. 

IV. Life — God — Omnipotent good, deny death, evil, 
sin, disease — disease, sin, evil, death, deny good, Omnipo- 
tent God, life. 

The culmination of this false syllogism is to contra- 
dict common sense, reason, the Bible, and God himself. 

"Logic is a machine like a mill; what it turns out de- 
pends upon wdiat is put in it; as stones by no manner of 
grinding can become flour, so error, though it pass 
through all the syllogisms of the world, cannot be changed 
into truth:" (Beard.) 

The founder of this false religion says in substance, 
when she discovered the awful unreality of the matter, it 
became known to her that pain, sickness, sin, and death, 
w^ere the mere beliefs of mortal mind, the phantoms of 
orthodoxy ? 

"It is a system of rank fanaticism. It requires the 
man who was born blind, to say that he is not blind, in 
order that he may see. It tells the man whose face is eaten 
to the bone with cancer, to believe and maintain that he 
has no cancer, that he is not sick, in order that he may 
recover. It instructs the man whose leg or arm is broken 
to deny having any broken bone, as a means of cure. It 
would always force us to conclude, should we accept its 
teachings, that the criminal whose neck is broken and 
whose breath is stopped by swinging from the gallows, 
died, or rather appeared to die, because of an illusion in 
which he thought his neck was broken and his breath shut 
off, when in reality nothing of the kind had taken place. 

Such is Christian Science, that so-called system of 
therapeutics, philosophy, and theology, which its notaries 
claim is to banish all the ills of humanity and usher in the 
dawn of a new and golden era." t 

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" DOCTRINE. 97 

It is a religious arrogation, which is always Anti- 
christ, describeciyby^St. Paul in II Thess. 2:3, 4. 

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that 
day shall [not gome, except there come a falling 
away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son 
of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself 
above all that is called god or that is worshiped; so 
that he as^god sitteth in the temple of god, showing 
himself that he is god." 




CHAPTER XL 



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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" SURGERY. 

"They speak great swelling words of 
vanity."— II Pet. 2:18. 

WING to the untenable doctrines and sweeping state- 
ments of Christian Science, its practitioners are 
frequently compelled to take most presumptuous 
positions, and indulge the wildest extravagancies. 

Sailing under the commission that Jesus Christ gave 
His Apostles — "Heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the 
dead'' — the apostles of this modern Therapeutic Theology 
sally forth with blazoned boldness and effrontery that out- 
rivals the most sanguine of any age. 

Relying on their belief in their chief doctrine, ""the 
nihility of matter," they deny the things our senses compel 
us to acknowledge. 

Under the powerful demonstrations of this so-called 
"Divine Science," its votaries claim to heal every form of 
disease and successfully treat the most difficult cases of 
surgery. 

It is claimed by its teachers that skilled "scientists"' 
will be enabled to set broken bones, prevent railroad 
wrecks, overcome conditions of climate: stilling the tem- 
pest, preventing flood or drowth, and tempering the torrid 
and frigid zones! 

Our great American humorist. Mark Twain, in an arti- 
cle published in the "Cosmopolitan," tells of an adventure, 
with which he met, while traveling in a foreign clime. 

Having walked off a cliff seventy-five feet high, and 
broken some arms, and legs, and one thing or another, and 
having been picked up by some peasants while searching 
for an ass, he was taken to their humble dwelling. 

The village was a mile away but there was no surgeon 
there 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" SURGERY. 99 

The medical fraternity of the place consisted of a horse- 
doctor and a Christian Science lady from Boston, who hap- 
pened to be summering there, and had a reputation for be- 
ing able to cure any thing. 

He chose the "Scientist."' 

As it was night by the time she was reached and con- 
sulted, she sent word to the afflicted tourist that she would 
givehim "absent treatment" for the time being, and go to see 
him in the morning; meantime for him to make himself 
tranquil and remember that there was nothing the matter 
with him. Although convinced that she had not diagnosed 
the case with sufficient care, there was nothing left but to 
pass the time till morning as best he could. 

He called for ref resements but was again disappointed, 
for the Christian Science doctor had anticipated that lie 
would be troubled with such "delusions" and had pre- 
scribed that he should pay no attention to them and to 
particularly remember that there was no such thing as 
"hunger," and "thirst" and "pain," whereupon he dismiss- 
ed his nurse and desired to be left to his "delusions^' 
to await the arrival of his eccentric doctor in the morning. 

The distinguished humorist passed a night of anguish, 
or at least he supposed he did — for it had all the symptoms 
of it. 

In due time the mysterious person arrived, and with 
distressing deliberation, unpinned, unhooked and uncou- 
pled her upholsteries and disposed of them; she then 
peeled off her gloves, took a book out of her hand bag, and 
drew a chair, and descended into it without a hurry, by 
the bedside. 

The crippled man being unable to offer his pulse, pre- 
sented his tongue, whereupon she remarked with pity but 
without passion, "Keturn it to it's receptacle! We deal 
with the mind only, and not with its dumb servants." 

Any attempt to state the symptoms of his case or how 
he felt, was repelled with the statement that she did not 
need to know those things, and that his remarks about how 
he felt was an abuse of language; for said she, "One does 
not feel." 



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100 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

''Therefore to speak of a non-existent thing as existent 
is a contradiction. Nothing exists but mind; the mind 
cannot feel pain; it only imagines it." 

The wounded man ventured a condition "But if it 
hurts just the same — " 

"It doesn't. Pain is unreal, hence it cannot hurt." 
In making a sweeping gesture, as if shooing the illu- 
sion of pain out of the mind, she raked her hand on a pin 
in her dress, said "Ouch !" and went tranquilly on with her 
talk, declaring that the patient should never allow himself 
to speak of how he felt, or permit others to do it; neither 
should he permit others to talk about disease, or pain, or 
death, or similar non-existences in his presence. 

Just at that moment the maid trod on the cat's tail and 
the cat let fly a frenzy of cat profanity, and the following 
conversation took place: 

Mark Twain: — (With caution.) Is a cat's opinion 
about pain valuable? 

Healer: — A cat has no opinion ; opinions proceed from 
the mind only; the lower animals being eternally perish- 
able, have not been granted mind; without mind, opinion 
is impossible. 

M. T. — She merely imagined she felt a pain? 
H. — She cannot imagine a pain for imagination is the 
effect of mind; a cat has no imagination. 

M. T. — (Soliloquising.) It is strange and interesting. 
I do wonder what was the matter with the cat. Because, 
there being no such thing as a real pain, and she being 
unable to imagine an imaginary one. it seems that God in 
His pity, has compensated the cat with some kind of 
mysterious emotion, usable when her tail is trodden on, 
which for the moment joins cat and Christian in one 
common brotherhood of — 

H. — (Indignantly.) Peace ! The cat feels nothing, 
the Christian feels nothing. Your empty and foolish imag- 
inings are profanation and blasphemy, and can do you an 
injury. It is wiser and better and holier, to recognize and 
confess that ther.> is no such thing as disease, or pain, or 
death. 




CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BURGEON 



102 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

M. T. — I am full of imaginary tortures, but I do not 
think I could be any more uncomfortable, if they were real 
ones. What must I do to get rid of them? 

H. — There is no occasion to get rid of them, since they 
do not exist. They are illusions propagated by matter, 
and matter has no existence. There is no such thing as 
matter. 

M. T. — It sounds right and clear, but yet it seems in 
a degree elusive; it seems to slip through, just when you 
think you are getting a grip on it. 

H. — Explain. 

M. T. — Well, for instance: if there is no such thing as 
matter, how can matter propagate things? 

(In her compassion she almost smiled. She would 
have smiled if there were any such thing as a smile.) 

H. — It is quite simple; the fundamental propositions 
of Christian Science explain it; and they are summarized in 
the four following self-evident propositions: I. God is 
All in all. 2. God is good. Good is Mind. 3. God 
Spirit, being all, nothing is matter. 4. Life, God, omni- 
potent Good, deny death, evil, sin, disease. There, — now 
you see. 

M. T. — It seems nebulous. Does — does it explain? 

H. — Doesn't it? Even if read backward it will do it. 

M. T. — What is the origin of Christian Science? Is 
it a gift of God, or did it just happen? 

H. — In a sense, it is a gift of God. That is to say, its 
powers are from Him, but the credit of the discovery of 
the powers and what they are for, is due to an American 
lady. 

M. T— Indeed? When did this occur? 

H. — In 18()(). That is the immortal date when pain, 
and disease, and death disappeared from the ear h to re- 
turn no more forever. That is. the fancies for which those 
terms si and. disappeared. The tilings themselves had 
never existed; therefore as soon as it was perceived that 
there were no such things, they were easily banished. The 



"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" SURGERY. 103 

history and nature of the great discovery are set down in 
the book here and — 

M. T. — Did the lady write the book? 

H. — Yes, she wrote it all herself. The title is "Science 
and Health, with key to the Scriptures." They were not 
understood before. Not even by the twelve Disciples. 
She begins thus — I will read it to you — (Having forgotten 
her glasses she quotes from memory.) "In the year 
1866 I discovered the science of Metaphysical Healing, 
and named it Christian Science. Through it religion and 
medicine are inspired with a diviner nature and essence, 
fresh pinions are given to faith and understanding, and 
thoughts acquaint themselves intelligently with God." 

M. T. — It is elegant. And it is a fine thought too — 
marrying religion to medicine, instead of medicine to the 
undertaker in the old way ; for religion and medicine prop- 
erly belong together, they being the basis of all spiritual 
and physical health. What kind of medicine do you give 
for the ordinary diseases such as — 

H. — We never give medicine in any circumstances 
whatever ! We — 

M. T— But, Madam, it says— 

H. — I don't care what it says, and I don't wish to talk 
about it. 

M. T. — I am sorry if I have offended, but you see the 
mention seemed in some way inconsistent, and — 

H. — There are no inconsistencies in Christian Science. 
The thing is impossible, for the "science" is absolute. It 
rests upon the immovable basis of an Apodictical Prin- 
ciple. 

M. T. — Beg pardon, the word flattened itself against 
my mind in trying to get in. 

H. — This Apodictical Principle is the absolute princi- 
ple of Scientific Mind Healing, the sovereign Omnipo- 
tence, which delivers the children of men from pain, 
disease, decay and every ill that flesh is heir to. 

M. T. — Did the discovery come suddenly, like Klon- 
dyke, or after long study and calculation, like America ? 



104 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

H. — The comparisons are not respectful, since they 
refer to trivialities — but let it pass. I will answer in the 
Discoverer's own words: "God had been graciously fitting 
me for the reception of the final revelation of the absolute 
principle of Scientific Mind Healing." This American 
lady, our revered Founder, is distinctly referred to. and her 
coming prophesied, in the twelfth chapter of the Apoca- 
lypse. She could not have been more plainly indicated by 
St. John, without actually mentioning her name. (Con- 
tinues quoting.) "In the opening of the Sixth Seal, typi- 
cal of six thousand years since Adam, there is one distinc- 
tive feature which has special reference to the present age. 
'And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven; a woman 
clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and 
upon her head a crown of tAvelve stars.' " — Rev. 12:1. 
That is our Head, our Chief, our Discoverer of Christian 
Science — nothing can be plainer, nothing surer. 

'' "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she 
hath a place prej)ared of God.' " — Rev. 12:6. That is Bos- 
ton ! A little book — merely a little book, could words be 
modester? Yet how stupendous its importance. Do you 
know what that book was? 

M. T.— Was it— 

H. — I hold it in my hand — "Science and Health !" 

For the benefit of those who have never seen the book, 
or met with any of its students, the same writer's views are 
submitted. 

"For all the strange and frantic and incomprehensible, 
and uninterpretable books, which the imagination of man 
has created, surely this one is the prize sample. It is 
written with a limitless confidence and complacency, and 
with a dash and stir and earnestness, which often compel 
the effects of eloquence, even when the words do not seem 
to have any traceably meaning. 

"There arc 1 plenty of people who imagine they under- 
stand the book; I know tin's, for I have talked with them; 
but in all cases, they were people who imagined there were 
no such things as pain, sickness and death, and no reali- 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" SURGERY. 105 

ties in the world; nothing' actually exists but Mind. It 
seems to me to modify the value of their testimony. 
When these people talk about Christian Science they 
do not use their own language but the language of 

the book; they pour out the book's showy incoherences and 
leave you to find out later that they were not originating, 
but merely quoting. They seem to know the volume by 
heart and to revere it as they would a Bible — another Bibie, 
perhaps I ought to say. 

* # * * 

''When you read it you seem to be listening to a lively 
and aggressive and oracular speech delivered in an unknown 
tongue, a speech whose spirit you get, but not the particu- 
lars; or, to change the figure, you seem to be listening to a 
vigorous instrument which is making a noise which it 
thinks is a tune, but which to persons not members of the 
band is only the martial tooting of a trombone, and merely 
stirs the soul through the noise but does not convey a 

meaning. 

* * * * 

"Without ever presenting anything which may right- 
fully be called by the strong name of Evidence; and some- 
times without, even mentioning a reason for a deduction 
at all, it thunders out the startling words 'I have proved' so 
and so! 

* ->r v? * 

"It is the first time since the dawn-days of Creation 
that a Voice has gone crashing through space with such 
placid and complacent confidence and command." 

While Mark Twain seemed to be willing to admit that 
the Angel of the Apocalypse handed down the book, yet 
he seemed to have serious doubts about Mrs. Eddy having 
translated it alone, owing to the several copyrights on it, 
1875, 1885, 1890, 1894. Yet her worshipers are seemingly 
blind to this fact and there is a general tendency among 
them to exalt her above Jesus Christ and His Holy 
Apostles. 

He acknowledged the proficiency of Christian 
Science in the surgery of his case, but the cold and 



106 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

stomach-ache acquired by the accident, he was not willing 
to trust in the hands of a woman he did not know, and in 
whose ability to treat mere disease, he had lost all confi- 
dence; for they also had been in her charge from the first. 
So necessity compelled him to send for the horse-doctor. 

Owing to aromatic circumstances he would have pre- 
ferred "absent treatment," but it was not the horse -doctor's 
mode of practice. 

The veterinarian prescribed to turn the stomach-ache 
into the botts, and the cold into the blind staggers, so he 
would be on his own beat and know what to do. So he pre- 
pared a bucket of bran mash and required the patient 
to take a dirjperful every two hours ! Hear the conclusion 
of the great American humorist: 

"No one doubts — certainly not I — that the mind exer- 
cises a powerful influence over the body. 

"From the beginning of time the sorcerer, the inter- 
preter of dreams, the fortune-teller, the charlatan, the 
quack, the wild medicine-man, the educated physician, the 
mesmerist, and the hypnotist, have made use of the client's 
imagination to help them in their work. They have recog- 
nized the potency and availability of that force. 

# -x- * * 

"Within the last quarter of a century in America, 
several sects of curers have appeared under various names, 
and have done notable things in the way of healing ail- 
ments, without the use of medicines. 

* * * ■*- 

"I believe it might be shown that all the 'mind' 
sects, except Christian Science, have lucid intervals; inter- 
vals in which they betray some diffidence, and in effect 
confess that they are not the equals of the Deity; but if the 
'Christian Scientist' even stops with being merely the equal 
of the Deity, it is not clearly provable by his Christian- 
Science Amended Bible. In the usual Bible the Deity 
recognizes pain, disease, and death as fads. lmt the Chris- 
tian Scientist knows better. Knows better, and is not 
diffident about saying so. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" SURGERY. 107 

"The 'Christian Scientist' was not able to cure my 
stomach-ache, and my cold; but the horse-doctor did it. 

"This convinces me that Christian Science claims too 
much. In my opinion it ought to let diseases alone, and 
confine itself to surgery. There it would have everything 
its own way. 

"The horse doctor charged me a half shilling, which 
out of a feeling of generosity I doubled; but the Christian 
Science doctor brought in an itemized bill for a crate of 
broken bones, mended in two hundred and thirty-four 
places — one dollar per fracture ! 

"I asked her if all was mind, to which she replied: 
'All else is substanceless, all else is imaginary.' 

"I gave her an imaginary check and she sued me for 
substantial dollars. It looks inconsistent." 

While sketching the above article my wife, who had 
left the wash-tub to administer to the wants of the baby, 
(whether real or imaginary) seeing the swift apioroach of 
the dinner hour, decided that "absent treatment" would 
neither stay our appetites nor cleanse the clothes. 

"What fools these mortals be !" 




CHAPTER XI L 



•CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" HEALING. 

"They are the spirits of devils working 
miracles."— Rev. 16:14. 

^^m*Q assert that Christian Science performs no cures 
LI would be to assume a position as untenable as to 
declare that Spiritualism or Necromancy are not 
black arts. We do not question their ability to do miracles 
of healing, but the means used to accomplish these cures 
demand serious investigation. 

"It is the duty of moralists, psychologists and medico- 
legal practitioners to scrutinize courageously great ques- 
tions of this kind, which force themselves upon the human 
conscience."* 

In "Suggestive Therapeutics." page 75. the same au- 
thor says: "A blister can be raised by hypnotic sugges- 
tion, and gives the experimentof a young lady being hyp- 
notized and eight postage stamps being applied to her left 
shoulder, whereupon some hours later, the blister was 
plainly observed." Other experiments of hemmorrhage are 
also cited, thus proving the effect of mind on the body. 

4 "As long ago as the time of John Hunter, it was es- 
tablished by a variety of experiments and by his own ex- 
perience that the concentration of attention upon any part 
of the human system affects first the sensations, next pro- 
duces a change in the circulation, then a modification of 
the nutrition, and finally an alteration in structure. "f 

In this phenonu >n a Christian Science, along with many 
false doctrines plays upon the credulity of its votaries, the 
most of whom are earnest and sincere truth seekers. 

But like Alchemy, Necromancy, and other sorceries. 
Christian Science as a religion will decline before the 

-Burnheim. Page 160. 
'.!. .M. Buckley, LL. I). 



"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" HEALING. 109 

scrutiny of the truly philosophic. And yet in some way 
God makes the wrath of man to praise Him. The science 
of Chemistry arose from the ashes of Alchemy; scientific 
experiment and psychical research have established on the 
very decline of Spiritualism the facts of Hypnotism and 
Telepathy, and it is to be hoped that on the very grave of 
Christian Science, as it founder says: "religion and medi- 
cine will be inspired with a diviner nature, fresh pinions 
given to faith and understanding, and mortals be acquainted 
more quickly with God,"* through Orthodoxy. 

Before embracing Christian Science or any other sys- 
tem of therapeutics, the first question to be settled in every 
conscientious man or woman's mind should be— Is it right?— 
Does the means used harmonize with the will of God as 
Tevealed in the Bible? If we are not careful along this 
line we are liable to drop back to the religious plane that 
characterized Popery in the time of Luther and Melanc- ' 
thon. In the sale of indulgences and in other wicked 
practices, Catholicism declared the "ends justified the 
means." 

That spiritualists and Christian Scientists have done 
marvelous things, is a known fact, but the manner of such 
practices is forbidden by the Word of God and has a 
pernicious effect on the moral nature of man. 

In the jurisprudence ol the universe, the Omnipotent, 
the Omniscient, and the Omnipresent God is the supreme 
legislative, Judicial and Executive. 

Among the armies of Heaven and the inhabitants of 
earth, none dare say unto Him, "what doest thou?" 

Hell is the fiery prison place God has prepared for the 
Tebellious spirit of man or angel. 

Imperishable spirit of man list to the voice of thy God. 

"Is not the life more than meat, and the body than 
raiment ?"— Mat. 6:25. 

The poet caught the inspiration when he sang: 



*"Science and Health." Page 1. 



110 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

"The world can never give, 

The bliss for which we sigh: 
'Tis not the whole of life to live, 

Nor all of death to die. 

Beyond this vale of tears 

There is a life above, 
Unmeasured by the flight of years, 

And all that life is love. 

There is a death whose pang 

Outlasts the fleeting breath: 
Oh, what eternal horrors hang 

Around the second death." 

Christian Science is a religion propagated by those 
who take it upon themselves to decide which parts of the 
Bible are canonical and which are not. This is infidelity 
and leads its adherents into the wildest fanaticism. 

Statements are made that contradict God's plainest 
•commands and conflict with the common facts of human 
experience. 

In its effort to be highly spiritual it becomes excess- 
ively material. In profession it denies our physical exist- 
ence, but in practice admits its supremacy. Its healing 
art attracts the multitudes, without which it could assume 
no name but Gnosticism. 

As in the solution of any problem, one wrong princi- 
ple applied or the omission of one that is right, leads to 
error and confusion, so these Christian Scientists, by add- 
ing to and subtracting from the ''book of this prophecy"" 
envelope their followers in doubt and mysticism. 

By the transgression in the Garden, man fell from a 
lofty height, and the march of sixty eenturies finds us still 
as a race, an infinite distance from God. Nature alone is 
not enough, w T e need His Word an I His Spirit to reveal 
Him to us through Jesus Christ His Son, the doctrine 
which Christian Scientists contradict. 

In order to be proficient in the healing art Christian 
Scientists claim one must admit the nihility of matter as 
applied to man. 

That is to say. he is not flesh, bljod. bones and brains 
- his anatomical structure is a myth. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" HEALING. Ill 

They predicate the statement upon two Scriptural 
statements one of which they misquote, leaving out the 
article "a" to deny the personalty of God. We will give 
then in their way: 

Gen. 1:27. So God created man in his own image. 
John 4:24. God is Spirit. Their deduction is "Man 
is Spirit." 

Or to put it in the Christian Science oracular. 

MAN=GOD. 

Other deductions follow such as: 
God is not sick, therefore man is not sick, 
God cannot die, therefore man cannot die, 
And many others might be mentioned which if not 
positively irreverent and blasphemous are very absurd. 

God tells us that the body is a verity as much as the 
spirit. This is plainly understood all the way through the 
Bible. To deny the reality of the body, destroys the grand- 
est hopes of the Christian and leaves him in the realms of 
mysticism. The personality of God and the angels, the 
resurrection and a glorified body, heaven as a blissful local- 
ity, all recede from his vision, and it becomes dim to him 
concerning his own earthly existence. Life itself to him 
becomes unreal. When reduced to this state of mental 
abberation it becomes easy for the "Scientist" to inject al- 
most any hallucination into his confused imagination. To 
persons in abjection, the sudden revelation of such start- 
ling phantasies as are announced by the Christian Science 
oracle, often have an exhilirating effect when believed. 

To a person whose body is writhing in torture, or 
racked with excruciating pain ; to one who is near the con- 
fines of mortal existence and who believes in divine retribu- 
tion, the startling announcement, from the lips of one, in 
whom he has reposed unswerving confidence, No Pain, No 
Death, No Sin, No Hell — falls on his willing ear like strains 
of heavenly music, and often stimulates like a medicine. 

Too often their cures are transitory and their joys 
ephemeral, and the despondent victim lapses into a state 
worse than the fiis':. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" HEALING. 1 13 

The sphere in which Christian Science gains its great- 
est fame, and wins the applause of its votaries, is the 
realm of the material, that which they claim to be 
non est. 

Christian Science healers are making use of some very- 
scientific principles, along with their ignorance,but probably 
doing it blindly, which are very proper within their limit 
as taught by Bernheim, Charcot, Liebault, and the strictly 
scientific, but the extremes to which these enthusiasts go 
is unwarranted either by the Bible or common sense. It 
is not religion but rank fanaticism, and acts as a "sugges- 
tive shock" on those who become their dupes. 

The following newspaper anecdote will illustrate their 
inconsistency and absurdity. 

OPERATING ON A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST. 

The jovial dentist is a scientist, and, presumably, a 
Christian, but the ways of the Christian Scientists are a 
mystery to him. 

"The other day," he said, '"'one of the leading Chris- 
tian Scientists came to me to get some work done. He 
needed it badly. 

"You are a Christian Scientist, are you not?" I 
asked him. 

He admitted it, thanking God that he was not as 
some other men are. 

"Am I right," I asked, as I made ready to operate on 
him, "in understanding that you deny the existence of 
disease?" 

"Yes," he said, "there is no disease?" 

"Then, my friend, why do you come to have this 
tooth operated on?" 

Well, he evaded the question; said that it was diffi- 
cult to shed light on minds that had not been touched by 
grac?, and intimated that his time was limited. So was 
mine, so I said no m^re, but put on the forceps and did my 
duty. 

How he yelled ! You couLl have hedrd him a block 



114 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

off. I haven't had a patient in a year that made such 
a fuss. 

"My dear sir," I asked soothingly, as he quieted down, 
"am I right in understanding that, in your view, there is 
no such thing as pain?" 

He gave me a grieved look, thought awhile, and said: 

"With more perfect mental control I should have felt 
none." 

"Would more perfect mental control," I asked, "have 
kept your tooth from decaying?" 

"I fear I cannot make you understand," he said, and 
off he went. 

And "pon my soul," ruminated the jovial dentist, "I 
fear he couldn't." — Buffalo Express. 

Deprive them of their healing power and there would 
not be a Christian Science church or college in the land. 
The imposture ranks with magic, alchemy, necromancy, and 
other occult sciences of the middle ages. 

True religion administers to both soul and body. 
Christian Science while denying the existence of matter, 
makes its ministrations to the body and slights the soul. 

Temporal bliss is sought and eternal interests for- 
gotten. It is certainly naught but a mongrel religion, 
whose chief components are Buddhism, Atheism, and mod- 
ern Devilism, spiced with pagan philosophy, and having 
for its principal tenet "the nihility of matter." Its "dam- 
nable heresies" are contaminating the world, and it needs 
but time and opjoortunity to turn this earth to a vast 
charnel-house, annihilate Heaven, and banish God Himself 
from the realm of existence. 

As a phrenopathic practice. Christian Science claims 
to be Scriptural in its mode, and supernatural in its appli- 
cation. 

The Bible cites many cases of "divine healing," but 
not one of "mind healing." Naaman's leprosy, Hezekiah's 
boil, the fever of Peter's wife's mother, and the cripple at 
the 1 Beautiful gate, all give proof that "the prayer of faith 
shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up: and 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" HEALING. 115 

if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." — 
Jas. 5:15. 

In the above text there are three things that conflict 
with Christian Science religion. 

1. A personal God. "The Lord shall raise him up." 
Christian Science says, "God is Divine Principle not 
person." — "Science and Health," page 377. 

2. Prayer. "The prayer of faith shall save the sick." 
Christian Science boldly asserts, "Prayer to a personal God 
affects the sick like a drug that has no efficacy of its own." 
— "Science and Health," page 489. 

3. Sin. "And if he have committed sins they shall 
be forgiven him." 

Christian Science positively asserts "There is no sin." 
— "Science and Health," page 7. 

From the above it will be seen that Christian Science 
is very unscriptural in its mode of healing. 

J ust how far the supernatural is involved in the appli- 
cation, may not be understood, but the thought may be 
suggested that God is not pleased with us using all kinds 
of supernatural power. Devilism is positively forbidden. 

Our Creator is pleased to visit us and send His angels 
to "minister for them who shall be heirs of Salvation." — 
Heb. 1:14, 2:6, but the Siniatic thunders have reverberated 
through the ages. "There shall not be found among you, 
any one that useth divination, or an observer of the times, 
or an enchanter, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar 
spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer, for all that do these 
things are an abomination unto the Lord." — Deut. 18:10, 
11, 12. The violation of this injunction by King Saul 
may be understood by reading I Sam. 28, and his punish- 
ment learned in I Chron. 10:13, 14, and King Asa's in II 
Chron. 16:12. 

In the Apostles' time the spirit of divination was re- 
buked and cast out, "and they that used curious arts 
brought their books together and burned them before all 
men." — Acts 16:16, 19:19. Such a revival is needed now- 
a-days as will cause the literature containing this scientific 



116 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

pow-wow of "God is All" and "All is God," "all is mind" 
and "nothing is matter," "All is good" arid "there is no 
evil," to be speedily consigned to the flames. 

The Christian Science healing formula, read to the 
sick or mumbled in the "silence" either in the form of 
"present" or "absent treatment,' outrivals witchery in the 
age of chivalry, with its 

"Double, double, 

Toil and trouble. 
Kettle boil, 

And caldron bubble." 

Their conjurations and pretended religious exorcisms, 
coupled with a pious attitude, often deceive the unwary 
and credulous. With Bible and "Science and Health" in 
hand they perform verbal ceremonies over the sick that 
often affect the patient like magic. By way of illustra- 
tion it may not be inexpedient for the author to relate a 
personal reminiscence. 

I first came in contact with this so-called Christian 
Science in Atkinson, Neb., in which place my mother was 
conducting a small restaurant business. I was living at 
the time on my farm twelve miles distant, with my family. 

In the winter of 1889 my mother succumbed to ner- 
vous prostration and heart disease, and was unable to 
conduct her business. 

About 3 o'clock, a. m., each morning she would become 
entirely helpless, unable to move hand or foot, or rise 
from her bed, till about 9 o'clock, a. m., when she suddenly 
regained use of her bodily powers, except great quivering 
of her flesh, palpitation of the heart, and trembling of limbs, 
accompanied by bodily weakness. 

Medical skill failed to assist her and it seemed as if 
her end was near. My wife became her constant attendant 
and I only awaited her dreadful summons by the death 
angel. 

Imagine my joy and surprise to receive word from my 
wife that my mother was well — had been healed instan- 
taneously by a woman, who said she did it by the power 
of God ! 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" HEALING. 117 

I hastened to learn the particulars of this mysterious 
circumstance, and see the wonderful woman myself. 

Sure enough when I got to town — I could scarcely be- 
lieve my own senses — there was mother apparently as well 
and as strong as ever, and busily engaged over the wash- 
tub! It was life from the dead and our greeting was as im- 
pressive as is often witnessed in a red-hot Methodist 
revival of religion. 

Her joy was beyond measure. She seemed to have 
found the elixir rite, the fabled fountain of De Leon, 
that insured perennial bloom to her cheek, and never fail- 
ing health to her bones ! 

She hastened to tell me that she was perfectly well, 
and that she would never be sick again — she couldn't be — 
for there was no "sickness." no ■sin,'" no '"death." and 
there was "no matter," and all that seemed so real to us 
were only "illusions"* — the '"false supposition of a false 
sense,"* and many other things that affected me somewhat 
alternately like chills and fever. To see her well made 
me rejoice, but that gibberish jargon seemed like delirium 
to me, and I felt concerned lest the affliction had gone 
from the nerves and heart to the head. 

My wife rather encouraged me to believe that the cure 
was genuine, for she said the editor's wife, whom I had 
known to be bed-fast for years, was also well and was healed 
as mysteriously and instantaneously. She further in- 
formed me that the august person, who had been such a 
benefactor to the town, was still in the midst, teaching the 
wonderful art to the astonished citizens at fifteen dollars 
per scholarship. I thought it did not seem just like Christ, 
for He never charged a fee to obtain a membership in His 
Church, or for healing diseases. But I cast my little mis- 
givings aside, being confronted with such overwhelming 
testimony, and resolved to take a scholarship. 

I was impatient for evening to arrive, that I might get 
a glimpse of the mysterious personage. I wondered if she 
could and would multiply bread and meat for the poor of the 
town, or if she could control the Nebraska blizzard, or if 



118 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

her face shone so that it would be necessary to appear as 
a veiled prophetess ! 

The time arrived to go to class and I fully expected to 
see a Christ of the female persuasion, with a rainbow about 
her head, and a golden scepter, bespangled with stars, in 
her right hand, to hold out to the highly favored of her 
disciples. 

My ardor was somewhat cooled to behold a very ordi- 
nary looking woman with a parchment in her right hand 
and a book in her left. The parchment, she said, con- 
tained twelve written lessons, which she professed to have 
written all herself, and were only exceeded in their in- 
trinsic value by the book she held in her other hand, and 
which she proposed to read aloud. 

She stated that there was not one present, if he would 
hear and heed the instruction imparted, but would not 
only be healed of any bodily infirmity of any form what- 
ever, whether of disease injury or deformity, but would 
also have the power to do the same thing. 

I paid the price, purchased the "Key to the Scriptures" 
at $3 r heard the course of lectures, received my diploma 
and went forth to the benighted world as a full fledged 
metaphysician. 

Truly Christian Science had produced a ''shock," 
whether it was physical or psychical, hetrodox or orthodox, 
hypnotic or by the Holy Ghost, I was unable to say, but I 
suddenly became interested in the Bible, and began to 
make inquiries about praying. When I attended Christian 
Science meetings I began asking many questions, and 
among others was — How shall I pray? 

The significant look from one to the other only added 
to the intensity of my desires and I insisted that Jesus 
prayed. They said "In Divine Science prayer is mental. "* 
We sit in the silence. 

While I knew Jesus often prayed in seeivt yet he 
often prayed in public, as when he fed tin 1 multitudes, in 
the Garden, for the 4 Apostles, etc. .and the Bible told the very 

""•Science and Health," Pa ere 318. 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" HEALING. 119 

words he used, and it seemed to me that importunity also 
in prayer was taught by the Savior in the first 14 versas of 
the 18th chapter of Luke. But they told me I would 
understand it better as I progressed in Science. I learned 
later that "If the blind lead the blind they both fall into 
the ditch." 

However, I had gained considerable confidence in 
Christian Science, not that I saw anything in the lectures, 
or was able to translate the Bible into "Science and Health," 
but because there was a member of the class who had been 
suffering for a number of years from what the medical 
fraternity had pronounced fistula on one of her internal 
organs, which she claimed she felt instantly healed during 
the course of the lectures; but which I found in later years 
was not a permanent cure. 

Yet I felt a kind of timidity and didn't feel quite safe 
in displaying a "shingle" that would bring a patronage 
from those suffering from severe diseases, such as cancer, 
diphtheria, or smallpox, till I had tested my ability some- 
what. 

I soon met with a favorable opportunity. In spite of 
the religious tenets of my recently adopted Scientific 
Christianity, I was my own first subject. A careful diag- 
nosis revealed symptoms of toothache. 

I tried to follow the formula laid down in my $3 pro- 
fessional library, and endorsed by my Christian Science 
tutor. When my tooth ached, I lied to myself as hard as I 
could, and stuck to it with all my might in the use of all 
the amuletic words and sentences of the cult, but all to 
no avail. 

I said, "There is no pain," "there is no matter," "All 
is God," "God is All," it is an "illusion !" "delusion!!" 
"conclusion !!!" I had the thing pulled, and settled back 
on the farm. 

Some incidental circumstances, however, may be inter- 
esting: 

The Christian Science healer and teacher turned out 
to be a married lady, of a neighboring city, whose conjugal 
infelicities, and expertness with the Science-baited hook, 



720 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

made angling for suckers with coin in their mouth, and the 
performance of similar miracles, more pleasant and profit- 
able than guiding the affairs of the household. Corres- 
pondence developed the fact that while among us, she 
had received seven dollars from a poor orphan girl, whose 
mother in Germany she gave "absent treatment," but had 
died before receiving the first treatment. 

It might be interesting to know of my mother's pro- 
gress. She claimed to cure my sister of scrofula, from 
Nebraska to Illinois, by giving her "absent treatment." 
She became so infatuated with her success as to give up 
all other employment and devote her time to therapeutics. 
I have never known positively of her performing a miracle. 

While she was rusticating with us on the farm, a cir- 
cumstance occured that might be interesting to lovers of 
Christian Science. 

Among my other rural possessions were a team of oxen 
and a small wagon. I say team because we hitched 
the oxen up like horses, with harness, and drove them with 
lines. One bright morning, during my absence, mother 
thought it would be delightful to hitch up the cattie and 
take a drive. All went well, till a short distance from the 
house, a stream of water was reached which seemed so un- 
pleasant to the oxen that they declined to cross it. Mother 
being possessed of a stiong will insisted, but the oxen, 
possessing a stronger will and superior strength, were 
soon wending their way homeward. 

Neither Scientist nor oxen were on amicable terms by 
this time. Jim, becoming infuriated in the harness, began 
to gore Dick, and soon the "Scientist" became the unwill- 
ing spectator of what might be termed a Nebraskan "bull 
fight." Whether there was matter or no matter, death or 
no death, she seemed to think she was facing such stern 
realities, and made 4 a hasty flight to the top of the nearest 
haystack. A neighbor seeing the danger hastened to her 
assistance. Before the infuriated animals could be un- 
hitched, they had broken loose from the wagon, chased the 
neighbor into the stable and horned down one corner of 



CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" HEALING 121 

our sod house. If the founder of Christian Science herself 
had been there she would have had to admit if "All was 
mind," there was matter enough, at least mother was con- 
vinced. 

Egypt has had her Jannes and Jambres, China her 
Buddha, and Turkey her Mohammed; but they all show 
the decline of fading glory. 

The United States may boast of a Schlatter or a 
Dowie, but 

Christian Science is the huge cartoon on 
the page of the century; its scientific and 
religious gc^b bid masks the 

ANTI-CUBIST IN 1900. 




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CHAPTER XIII. 



IS "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" CHRISTIAN? 

"Beware of false prophets which come 
to you in sheep's clothing."— Mat. 7:15. 

^^HE very name of this spurious religion is calculated 
CI to deceive. 

It is neither Christian nor science. It is antagonistic 
to the Bible and every demonstrated law of nature. One 
might as well aspire to pulling himself over a stake and 
ridered ten-rail fence by his boot-straps or render himself 
imponderable as to hope to make a practical demonstra- 
tion of the fundamental principles of this therapeutic 
theology. If it could be followed out in practice, it would 
dethrone God and Deify man. These are facts that are too 
evident in its leadings and teachings. 

Belief in personality with reference to God and the 
angels, as well as the infernal host, is the chief corner- 
stone of revealed religion, yet it is firmly denied by these 
false philosophers. This is Atheism, pure and simple. 

The declaration that "God is all" confounds God with 
His works and makes God and nature synonomous terms. 
This is Pantheism and Gnosticism in equal proportions. 
It might be further shown that the system contains ele- 
ments of Spiritualism, Buddhism, Magianism, Mesmerism, 
etc., etc. 

It is a system of religions alchemy; the 
Boston mortar is the scientific crucible. 
where the alkahest is applied to the equal in- 
gredients of Ilea then religions, pagan philos- 
ophies, andmodern infidelity. Had produces a 
transmutation, which its discoverer named 
"CHRISTIAN SCIENCES 
It is amazing to see how greedily an unsuspecting 
public are grasping after its illusive pleasures. It 



IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" CHRISTIAN? 123 

has become the Eldorado of the t religious world. People 
are emigrating from Orthodoxy to Christian Science as the 
world flocked to California in 1850, and are now rushing 
to Klondyke. 

Their hopes are as sadly disappointed as were those of 
some early adventurers who came to America for gold, but 
returned with their vessels laden with yellow earth instead 
of precious ore ! 

While pretending to teach the doctrines of the Bible, 
it substitutes the falsities of its own peculiar creed. The 
doctrines that have had a salutary effect on mankind wher- 
ever taught and believed, such as the incarnation, the 
atonement, the resurrection, the judgment, etc., are flatly 
denied, and substitutes disseminated that lead to many 
pernicious practices. 

These Scientists are as apt at proselyting as are 
the Plymouth Brethren. As evidence thefollowing is sub- 
mitted from Judge Ewing's lecture, under the auspices of 
the Mother Church, at Boston, Oct. 5, 1899. 

"Doubtless there are many points involved in Chris- 
tian belief and conduct, respecting which you and Christian 
Scientists are in perfect accord ; a brief reference to these 
will, I think, bring us a little nearer together. **** 

"You believe in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son 
of God, Who taught in the temple, preached the gospel, 
healed the sick, made the lame to walk, gave sight to the 
blind, hearing to the deaf, purity to the sinful, was cruci- 
fied, buried, and on the third day arose triumphant over 
death, and with the radiant splendors of the transfigura- 
tion, spanned the heavens with a bow of promise, and dis- 
pelled forever the shadows of earth by the demonstrated 
truth of life immortal as God. You believe in this dear 
compasssionate, loving, healing, Christ as your Lord, your 
Saviour, your Exemplar. So do we. 

"We believe the Ten Commandments are God's laws 
of requirement and restriction, to be resolutely and abso- 
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IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 1 ' CHRISTIAN? 125 

"You believe that prayer is a duty and a privilege. 
♦So do we. 

"You believe in the great commandment, Thou shalt 
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy 
Soul, and with all thy mind, and the second which is like 
unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self. So do 
we. 

"Thus it is found that we are substantially in accord 
upon the essential requirements of the religion of Christ 
as you understand it." 

This seems but an adroit speech to catch the unwary 
and is "talking cream and practicing skim milk." 

The Christian Advocate, Sept. 12, 1889, relates a 
notable scandal in Christian Science circles that illustrates 
the logical outcome of their principles, applied to the 
family and the state. 

"One of their priestesses spiritually divorced herself 
from her husband and spiritually married another, the 
hero of half a dozen bigamies." 

The professors of Christian religion sometimes fall 
into great sins, by departing from its principles; but what 
must be the moral disposition of them who are taught that 
"there is no sin?" Their very breath is tainted with social 
anarchy and domestic infelicity. 

Adherence to the doctrine; of "nihility of matter" 
enables one to perform marvelous cures among the sick, 
•says the "Scientist." 

The great apostle and founder of this modern sect, in 
her "Bible Annex," says it was the secret of the wonderful 
power of Jesus to open blind eyes, unstop deaf ears, cure 
the cripple and raise the dead; he was simply a "Christian 
Scientist !" (See "Science and Health," page 14.) 

She is not the first to have claimed that Jesus Christ 
performed His miracles by Beelzebub. "There is no 
matter" may be a therapeutic formula that his Satanic 
Majesty may honor under certain circumstances but it is 
not an infallible cure. Those mystic words may be atten- 
uated with potency from iiwisible beings; they may be the 



126 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

"presto" of an occult science; but God is no more in them 
than he was in the necromancy of the middle ages, or the 
Magianism of Egypt in the days of Moses and Aaron. 

Before this mighty dogma, the Christian Scientist 
claims that sin, sickness, and death will vanish away, but 
their greatest experts have failed to make a practical 
demonstration. 

"Intelligent missionaries and travelers in heathen 
lands, where they have given any investigation to the sub- 
ject, unite in testifying that extraordinary cures follow the 
enchantments and magical rites employed by priests and 
physicians claiming supernatural powers. 

"The influence of witch-doctors among the negroes of 
Africa, both to produce disease and cure it, is as well au- 
thenticated as any facts concerning the 'Dark Conti- 
nent.'***" 

"Voodooism has power to bring on diseases and also 
to cure; nor need this burden be placed upon the negros 
and American Indians exclusively. In various parts of 
Austria, Germany, and "Russia, among the peasantry and 
ignorant classes, belief in witchcraft, and the coincidences 
which sustain it, still exists; and on the authority of most 
distinguished physicians and surgeons in those countries, 
I state that the results both in inflictirg and in removing 
what they never inflicted, which follow the operations of 
these witch-doctors, are often astonishing."* 

To the mental conceptions of these religious enthus- 
iasts, animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms are exiled,, 
brains, bones, lungs and livers, are relegated to the sphere 
of nothingness, and pain, sickness, and death are "false 
suppositious of a false sense !" 

On this basis they declare that if it were commonly 
believed that strychnine were a proper remedy to admin- 
ister to infants for colic, it would be harmless as an infusion 
of catnip tea. and vice versa — a prmc i le that Socrates him- 
self could not demonstrate, when compelled to drink the 
clip of hemlock. 

"Chrlstiaii Sciencu and Other Superstitions." Page 32, by .1. M. 
Buckley. LL. n 



IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" CHRISTIAN? 127 

These vain philosophers are wiser in their own conceit 
"than seven men who can render a reason." 

"The profoundest and most transcendental teachings 
of the Oriental religious philosophies, including Budd- 
hism, Brahmanism, Kabalistic Judaism, and esoteric Chris- 
tianity, are based on the eternal truth, that all our sense 
perceptions are an illusion, or deceptive appearance, and 
our senses never tell us the real truth, but only that which 
is an inversion of the truth. We are to judge and to de- 
cide directly contrary to the illusory decisions of the sen- 
suous degree of the mind, for it is only in that way that 
we can come to the cognition of the real truth. According 
to this principle, which is the method of philosophizing 
called the reconciliation of contradictions, pain is a pleas- 
ure misunderstood and a fever is not a disease but a 
remedy !"* 

Before closing this chapter it might be beneficial to 
make the following 

STATEMENT OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: 

1. It is, in the strict sense of the word, sectarian in 
spirit. 

2. Whatever likeness it may have to religion is bor- 
rowed from orthodox churches. 

3. Proselyting is part of its practice. 

4. Its novel features are contrary to spiritual worship. 

5. Its flagrant attacks of Scripture are unholy. 

6. All that is of therapeutic value in its practice is 
well known in the science of Hypnotism. That which is 
mere pretense belongs to the realm of Black Art. 

7. It is hypocrisy to claim its therapeutic phenomena 
under the name of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

8. Its extreme and fanatical statements, contradicting 
both science and religion are disastrous to both body and 
soul. 

9. The joy and peace of heavenly anticipations are 
wrecked in the vortex of a selfish present life. 

10. The exhorbitant prices of its literature, treatment 

♦••Esoteric Christianity," Paga 60. 



128 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

and lecture courses, are antagonistic to a free gospel, and 
betray the motive for its existence. 

Instead of being Christianity, it is empiricism in the 
extreme, and hypocrisy unalloyed— "a morality that cures 
one vice by means of another." 

A concise and correct editorial appeared recently in the 
Free Methodist in answer to the quesiton, What is Chris- 
tian Science? 

"It is a crude, muddy, misty, nebulous mixture 
of idealism, pantheism, Buddhism, theosophy etc., 
christened by the high sounding name it bears, as a means 
of blinding the unwary to its positively unscientific and 
anti-Christian character. 

"It is the preeminent travesty of the age on both science 
and Christianity. It has not a single characteristic of true 
science, and denies every fundamental doctrine of Chris- 
tianity, and then 'steals the livery of heaven to serve the 
Devil in,' by arrogating to itself the name of Christian 
Science ! What more unblushing fraud has the Christian 
era seen?" 

In the Holy Scriptures the prophetical index points 
out this modern sect in numerous places; the following is 
unmistakable : 

"BUT THERE WEEE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE 
PEOPLE, EVEN AS THERE SHALL BE FALSE TEACHERS AMONG 
YOU, WHO PRIVILY SHALL BRING IN DAMNABLE HERESIES, EVEN 
DENYING THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM, AND BRING UPON 
THEMSELVES SWIFT DESTRUCTION. AND MANY SHALL FOL- 
LOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS; BY REASON OF WHOM THE WAY 
OF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF. AND THROUGH COVET- 
OUSNESS SHALL THEY WITH FEIGNED WORDS MAKE MER- 
CHANDISE OF YOU: WHOSE JUDGEMENT NOV>' OF A LONG TIME 
LINGERETH NOT, AND THEIR DAMNATION SLUMBERETH NOT." 

—II Pet. 2:1,2,3. 




CHAPTER XIV. 



SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 

"The soul that sinneth it shall die."— 

Ezek. 18:4. 

'•Ye must be born again. "— John 3:7. 

fN physical and psychical sciences we find authors using 
the terms, suggestive hypnotics, suggestive telepathy 
and suggestive therapeutics and it seems proper to 
make a similar use of the word "suggestion," as applied to 
religion, to illustrate its phenomena. 

It is true that great minds differ in therapeutics as 
well as the diseases of the soul and the manner of their 
treatment. Charcot, Braid, Luys, Hart, Bernheim, Mason 
and Hammond differed in many points, some of which were 
quite important. As Dr. Mason himself expressed it con- 
cerning the differing opinions of double personality, "It is 
Locke against Descartes, Hamilton against Locke, and 
Hobbes against the field. ' If we find M. D.s differing 
widely we may not be surprised to find a difference among 
the D. D.s. The differences among the medical fraternity 
do not lead to skepticism concerning the science of materia 
medica, and a difference among the ministerial fraternity 
should not cause one to reject orthodoxy, for even among 
them none but the Pope of Rome professes infallibility. 

Although the peculiar application of scientific terms 
are used in designating religious phenomena it is done 
with the hope of bringing science and religion closer to- 
gether, though they have sometimes been nearly divorced. 

Speaking of the scientific experiments of Bernheim, 
Charcot, Braid, Luys, and others, Dr. Cook says in "Hyp- 
notism," page 150: 

"These gentlemen are all careful observers and their 
position in the medical world, together with their scientific 
education will give weight to their testimony. The early 



130 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

investigators of these subjects, like the pioneers of every 
new science, were shining marks for every sort of abusive 
epithet, and for their devotion to science were called insane, 
termed rascals, were branded as charlatans — in fact had 
exhausted upon them the whole magazine of vituperative 
abuse. The Church settled the whole question to its satis- 
faction, at least for the time, by announcing that they were 
the emissaries of His Satanic Majesty." In this neither 
the scientific nor religious world is to be wholly condemned. 
It is right of course for the Church especially to be re- 
ticent about admitting strange things till fully established 
by scientific and religious tests. The divine injunction is, 
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." — I 
Thess. 5:21. 

Those who "walk circumspectly" must have the su- 
perior faculties of the understanding — the mind, and con- 
science, and affections — properly wrought upon before the 
will, will yield to the veriest facts of either religion or 
science. 

M. Liebault says: "Without being aware of it we ac- 
quire moral and political predispositions, prejudices, etc.; 
we are impregnated with the mental atmosrjhere about us. 
We honestly believe and defend as we would our own. wel- 
fare, social and religious principles which may be opposed 
to common sense, not to say reason. These principles 
were held by our ancestors. They are also national, and 
they descend from father to son. It is impossible to des- 
troy then by argument, and dangerous to do so by force. 
Their fallacy is pointed out in vain. Man thinks by imita- 
tion and however absurd his thoughts may be, they form 
part of the man, and are finally transmitted from genera- 
tion to generation as instincts are."* 

It will therefore be a matter of wonder if some except- 
ion is not taken to the phrase "Suggestive Orthodoxy" or 
even the subject matter of this and other chapters in this 
book. 

The Bible plainly teaches that God is not only the 

*"Suggesilve Them pen ties." 



SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 131 

Creator of the universe but our Creator also and that means 
the entire being — spirit, soul and body. Orthodoxy there- 
fore would naturally be friendly to every true science, 
whether physical, psychical or pathological. Christian 
Science is the open antagonist of the first and last, and 
the secret enemy of the second. 

That God created the heaven and the earth and made 
man — soul, body, and spirit, is generally accepted, but the 
last quarter of a century has witnessed quite a stir in the 
minds of the whole civilized world concerning the healing 
of diseases without the use of medicine. 

As diseases have been cured by hypnotism, some have 
been ready to throw overboard the whole science of pathol- 
ogy and declare doctors a humbug. It is to be hoped 
from what has already been said that the uses and abuses 
of hypnotic therapeutics have been made plain. 

Again, as the Bible teaches "divine healing" and it 
has been demonstrated in the Church all along the ages, 
there are religionists who are also ready to declare that 
materia medica is of Satanic origin or man's invention in- 
stead of a science upon which God Himself sends His ap- 
proving smile. St. Paul also, speaking by inspiration, said 
"Luke the beloved physician" in Col. 4:14, and "Luke my 
fellow laborer," in Philemon 24. But some Christian Scient- 
ists have said that Luke was a metaphysician. It says 
physician. There seems to have been need of them among 
the Holy Apostles, for although Christian Science says 
there is no sickness, St. Paul also told Timothy that he had 
left Trophimus sick at Miletum. — II Tim. 4:20. Again it 
is written "Hezekiah was so so sick that he was about to 
die," II Ki. 20:1; another thing Christian Science declares 
to be an "illusion." 

The Bible speaks of and recognizes hundreds of cases 
of bodily sickness, all of which are claimed to be myths by 
Christian Science, but these are not what instigated the 
writing of this chapter. 

The psychical sickness referred to in the phrophecy of 
Isaiah alludes to a disease that needs the most pious at- 



132 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

tention to affect its cure, but Christian Science glaringly 
says it is an illusion. And after the soul has recovered its 
health, the -violation of any law, physical, mental, or moral 
will have its legitimate effect unless a miracle is performed 
by the Almighty God Himself. 

The prophet speaks of the diseased soul in the follow- 
ing language: "The whole head is sick, and the whole 
heart faint. From the soul of the foot even unto the head 
there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises, and 
putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound 
up, neither mollified with ointment." — Isa. 1:5, 6. 

Surely the above is a bad case and will need a greater 
than the discoverer of Christian Science to restore health. 
But, thank God, He has laid help upon One that is mighty 
to save. 

"The great Physician now is near, 

The sympathizing Jesus; 
He speaks the drooping heart to cheer, 

Oh, hear the voice of Jesus. 

Sweetest name on mortal tongue, 

S .veetest note in seraph song, 
Sweetest carol ever sung, 

Jesus, blessed Jesus." 

The restoration of the sin-sick soul engages the martial 
hosts of three worlds — earth, hell, and heaven — and the 
scene of the conflict is the soul of the individual. 

Jesus Christ, the "captain of our salvation, '" angelic 
and archangelic hosts, and even men themselves volunteer 
— against men and demons under that archtraitor, the devil 
— to save the soul from death; and the modus operandi of 
men are found as divergent even in orthodox religion as in 
medicine, and yet each denomination has its adherents 
with apparently successful results. 

The situation with the soul is similar to that of the 
body. It must first be made cognizant of the direase and 
then set about for the recovery. In both religion and 
medicine too often we find the words of Lord Bacon vori- 
• fied, and fatal results following: "The human mind does 
not Bincerely receive the light thrown upon tilings, but 



SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 133 

mixes therewith its own will and passions; thus it makes a 
science [or religion] to its taste; for the truth that man 
most willingly receives is the one he desires." 

The providences of God often break the will and then 
the patient is willing to be led and take the remedy the 
Physician prescribes. 

Some are unwilling to believe that God would entrust 
such important work as saving a soul in the hands of man; 
and so He is solely, but yet "we are laborers together with 
God/' (I. Cor. 3:9) and He, the Holy Ghost, superintends 
the whole process and will do it right if men will give Him 
a chance. The great trouble with men and women is they 
are not submissive to God till pecuniary loss, social distress, 
sickness, death of a loved one, or some other providence of 
God will produce the "suggestive shock" of the moral 
emotions that will break the stony heart and subdue the 
stubborn will. But the loving Father has a gentler way of 
wooing His children in the "means of grace" spoken of in 
another chapter. But alas ! too many, like the author of 
this book, will not employ them till the judgments of God 
speak louder than trumpet thunders into his deafened ears 
and seared conscience. But this suggestive shock is neces- 
sary, hence the Apostle Paul said "Awake thou that sleep- 
est and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee 
light."— Eph. 5:14. 

As it is a settled fact that the most favorable condi- 
tion to receive the hypnotic suggestion is willingness, so is 
it with the sin-sick soul: "orthodox suggestion," if one may 
be allowed to coin an expression to convey his thought, 
occurs when one is willing and puts himself in a recep- 
tive condition. Herein is involved the "mourner's bench" 
of Methodist origin. Many have proven that by requiring 
the seeker to take specific steps, he becomes receptive and 
the Holy Ghost comes and produces the orthodox sug- 
gestion that frequently brings a complete change to the 
soul and often renews the body. 

The moral reformation of the convert depends largely 
upon the light he has been given. Hence it has been 
deemed prudent to preach the Law as well as the Gospel. 



134 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

Therapeutic suggestion also is often accompanied by 
moral reformation. Dr. Cook cites numerous instances in 
which hypnotic suggestion has cured inebriant, tobacco, 
morphine, opium and other drug habits. For the narration 
of the experiments see "Hypnotism," page 103. 

There are many sincere persons in all the orthodox 
churches that are kept out of the Kingdom of God because 
their prejudice to the "altar" or the violent emotions of 
suggestive orthodoxy are feared as the prejudiced fear 
hypnotism. 

The radical change in the soul that brings complete 
transformation and its accompanying "ecstacy" is neglected 
and rejected as fanaticism by the "too much learned." To 
obtain the "joy unspeakable and full of glory" or "peace 
that flows like a river" and "passeth all understanding," 
one must submit to the operation of the Holy Ghost on 
his soul, Who will begin by touching the affections to 
subdue the will, and then He will reveal Bible light to a 
willing mind. 

The Bible doctrines of Sin, Righteousness, Judgment 
and eternal Rewards and Punishments, all of which 
Christian Science denies, have the salutary effect of 
awakening the soul that is "dead in trespasses and 
sins," to see that he is an "alien from the commonwealth 
of Israel, and stranger from the covenants of promise, hav- 
ing no hope and without God in the world." — Eph. 2:12. 
He sees then that he "must be born again," and his own 
works will not save him, even though he gave "all his 
goods to feed the poor" — or had founded schools, built 
churches or any other outward work — unless the "love of 
God was shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost," he 
is but a "sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." 

This awakening quickens every faculty of his being 
and self-love induces repentance and here the struggle 
between "will" and "desire" begins, and the penitent cries 
"Jesus forgive these parting tears and yet from every idol I 
must part." 

The blessed Holy Spirit helps the seeker "every step 



SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 135 

of the way" and when the last fibre is severed that binds 
the heart to the things of this world, from the hopeless- 
ness of despair, the Holy Ghost brings Calvary to view and 
teaches him the beauty of those inspiring lines : 

"Other refuge have I none 
Hangs my helpless soul on Thee." 

As he begins to see the love of God in "free grace," 
and pinions of faith and love carry him heavenward, he 
plants his feet firmly on the "Word of God that liveth and 
abideth forever." Skepticism and infidelity vanish away 
like the mists before the rising sun and the soul sings 
exultingly : 

"1 see the new creation rise, 

I hear the speaking blood; 
It speaks, polluted nature dies, 

Sinks 'neath the cleansing flood." 

We may be elated to merit a place in the annals of 
fame or to inherit a fortune, but to inherit eternal life 
and become "heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus 
Christ," brings unspeakable bliss. The things of the world 
bring pleasure, but the things of God afford joy and peace. 

Human emotions are sometimes uncontrollable and 
often lead to acts that excite indignation in the uninter- 
ested or unaffected. So many times we need to draw the 
mantle of charity over some scenes of great emotion, and 
in fact, they are too sacred to speak of lightly. But God 
has furnished a safety valve for the "blest spirit," either 
of man or angel, and on earth as in heaven the amen, glory, 
hallelujah, and praising God are all Scriptural licenses. 

To the illuminated soul of the Christian, the Bible be- 
comes a new book. In it he sees new beauties and cherishes 
every promise as his own. It becomes his constant com- 
panion and he feeds his hungry scul upon it as the children 
of Israel did the "angel food" that God rained upon them 
in the wilderness. 

He senses the reality and beauty of the words of the 
old prophet when he said: 

"For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from 



136 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, 
and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to 
the sower and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that 
goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me 
void but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall 
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go 
out with joy and be led forth with peace: the mountains 
and the hills shall break forth before you into singing and 
all the trees of the field shall clap their hands." — Isa. 
55:10, 11, 12. 

The words of the great Apostle, "And you that were 
sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked 
works, yet now hath he reconciled.***** Even the mys- 
tery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, 
but now is made manifest to His saints ***** which is 
Christ in you the hope of glory," (Col. 1:21, 26, 27,) come 
to his enraptured soul with new meaning and fresh vigor. 

Even the hymns he sings brings to his soul the sacred 
bliss that he felt when in youthful innocence in his child- 
hood home, he heard his saintly mother sing: 

"Oh how happy are they, 
Who their Saviour obey, 

And have laid up their treasures above: 
Tongue can never express 
The sweet comfort and peace 

Of a soul in its earliest love. 

That sweet comfort was mine 
When the favor divine, 

I received through the blood of the lamb: 
When my heart first believed 
What a joy I received, 

What a Heaven in Jesus' name. 

Jesus all the day long 
Was my joy and my song: 

O, that all His salvation might see ! 
He hath loved me, I cried, 
He hath suffered and died 

To redeem even rebels like me." 

That such glorious experiences aro wrought in the soul 
is manifest on every hand, infidelity and formalism to the 
contrary notwithstanding. 



SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 137 

A poor besotted wife beater in a western town became 
deeply convicted of his sins, in answer to the prayer of his 
sister-in-law residing at the time in another part of the 
state, insomuch that with hot penitential tears rolling 
down his cheeks, he arose from his bed in the night time, 
and called irDon the minister in the town to pray for him. 
This was done and he returned home feeling some better, 
but still unsatisfied. 

Many sincere people tried to make him think he was 
converted and even induced him to join the church; but ah, 
he knew his own heart too well to be deceived. He deter- 
mined to find God and became so serious that many min- 
isters were consulted, who of course had their various 
theories to present, but the man had got to the place where 
he wanted more than theory; he wanted an experience. He 
often said "I want to know that I am saved." Some said 
he could know it and others said he couldn't. He lingered 
between doubt and despair for several months, but finally 
threw away his prejudice, came and humbled his proud 
spirit at the much despised and unpopular "mourner's 
bench," gave up his sins, confessed them all under the blood 
of the everlasting covenant and found "Him of whom 
Moses and the prophets did write." 

Whisky, cards, tobacco and every vicious habit were 
swept from him by the mighty "outpouring of the Holy 
Ghost" and today he is a watchman upon the walls of Zion, 
declaring "the whole counsel of God," that we may know 
here on earth that men and women may become saints by 
the application of the precious blood of Jesus through 
faith. May many more go and "do likewise." 

As God fills and thrills with His glory, the gratitude 
of the true saint is often expressed by shouting the high 
praises of God. However, these states of "ecstacy" are to 
be well guarded. Every good and perfect gift that cometh 
down from the Father of lights has its uses as well as 
abuses. Who does not know the "peculiar temptations" 
of both physician and minister. 

The beggar Castellan's outrage and similar diabolical 
deeds prove the dangers of hypnotic influence. Doctors 



138 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRTSTIAN SCIENCE. 

of medicine, as well as Doctors of Divinity, perform the 
duties of their respective callings within the sanctity of the 
home, and because wicked men are given to malpractice 
and sinister motives, it neither overthrows the science of 
hypnotism or pathology, nor annihilates the religion of 
Jesus Christ, though their progress is often very much re- 
tarded thereby. 

What has been said by Dr. Bernheim by way of advice 
in employing hypnotic therapeutics is applicable to religion : 

"First, never hypnotise any subject without his formal 
consent or the consent of those in authority of him. 

"Second, never induce sleep except in the presence of a 
third person in authority, who can guarantee the good faith 
of the hypnotiser and the subject. Thus any trouble may 
be avoided in the event of an accusation, or any suspicion 
of an attempt which is not for the relief of the subject." 

Clinical prof essors as well as church theologians should 
obey the Scriptural injunction "Abstain from all appear- 
ance of evil." — I. Thess 5:22. 

In the study of physical phenomena pertaining to re- 
ligion, the most scholarly are unable to draw a distinct line 
of demarkation between the natural and supernatural; yet 
science and religion are not identical. (See Prof. Myers' 
chart at the close of this chapter.) 

That there are many of the deep things of God that 
can only be understood by the revelations of the Holy 
Ghost is proven by the Scripture. 

"Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered 
into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared 
for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them to 
us by His Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the 
deep things of God."— I. Cor. 2:9, 10. 

Jesus Christ who "brought life and immortality to 
light through the gospel" said to Nicodemus: 

"Marvel not that I said unto thee Ye must be born 
again. The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou nearest 
the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh or 
whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 



SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 139 

Yerily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know 
and testify that we have seen ; and ye receive not our wit- 
mess."— Jno. 3:7, 8. 11. 

The words of our Saviour quoted above are quite con- 
tr ary to Prof. Beard's triple division of the universe in its 
Telation to the human understanding; he makes these three 
general divisions — "the demonstrably true, or science; the 
demonstrably false, or delusions; and the indemonstrable, 
or religion." 

As orthodox religion is revealed, some of its tenets may 
be demonstrable and others not, and yet religion is not 
science nor science religion, but as has been said they are 
never antagonistic. 

Through repentance toward God and faith in Jesus 
Christ, the most uneducated as well as the most erudite, can 
de monstrate the fact of forgiveness of sins, and yet neither 
<can demonstrate the Trinity. Probably in Dr. Beard's 
philosophy the conscience resides in the brain and that 
leads to another fallacious statement of his that "Religion 
is recognized exclusively by the emotions and science is 
re cognized exclusively by the intellect," but God says, "I 
will put my laws in their mind and write them in their 
hearts," (Heb. 8:10,) and finally to his statement "The at- 
tempt to make religion scientific — to confirm the longings 
of the heart by the evidence of the senses — is a delusion." 
We agree with him that a "Religion proved to be false be- 
comes a delusion. 

He, along with Christian Scientists and other infidel 
teachers, may attempt to prove orthodoxy to be a delu- 
sion ; but as long as the old ship Zion continues to ride the 
tempestuous sea of life, and the evangelical mission of the 
Church militant is not countermanded by the King of 
kings and Lord of lords, the saints on earth will continue 
to sing that grand old hymn. 

"How can a sinner know 

His sins on earth forgiven'? 
How can my gracious Saviour show 

My name inscribed in Heaven? 



140 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

What we have felt and seen 

With confidence we tell; 
And publish to the sons of men. 

xiie signs infallible. 

We wh ) in Christ believe 

That He for us hath died, 
We all ilis unknown peace receive, 

And feel His blood applied. 

Exults our rising soul, 

Disburden'd of her load, 
And swells, unutterably full 

Of glory and of God. 

His love, surpassing far 

The love of all beneath. 
V\ e find within our hearts, and darp 

The pointless darts of death. 

Stronger than death or hell 

The sacred power we prove: 
And, conquerors of the world, we dwell 

In Heaven, who dwell in love." 

It seems appropriate in this connection for the author 
to relate his personal experience with reference to the"sug- 
gestive shock'' that the Holy Ghost gave at the time of his 
conversion : 

It was on a bright morning tin August. 1894, after six 
weeks of earnest effort to find the Lord, while alone reading 
the last two verses of the (5th chapter of I. Cor., in a sod 
school house on the plains of Nebraska, that Je us revealed 
Himself to me. The transfiguration glory that caused the 
three Apostles to fall like dead men beeame a reality to me. 
The Scripture also was fulfilled in my case: "Howbeit 
when He, the Spirit of truth is come He will guide you into 
all truth ; for He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever 
He shall hear that shall He speak; and He will show you 
things to come." — Jno. 16:13. In addition to the knowl- 
edge of sins forgiven, and adoption into the family of 
heaven, I was told that my wife and family who had been 
separated from me for over fifteen months, and with whom 



SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 141 

I had no correspondence, would be restored to my embrace. 
To this I testified publicly, for which I was derided. But * 
the strange part of it was that after the family was reunited, 
my wife told me that before she received any word from 
me, while she was living in Peoria, 111., while awake one 
night she heard me call her plainly and knew my voice. 
Call it telepathy, clairvoyance or any other scientific name 
pertaining to the supraliminal or subliminal self, the facts 
and effects remain unchanged and harmonize with the 
Word of God. Orthodoxy is orthodoxy and never conflicts 
with science. 

The subjoined chart by Prof. F. W. H. Myers, Hon. 
Sec. of the proceedings of the Society for Psychical Ke- 
search, London, is the scientific basis of the thoughts of 
this and other chapters, and the reader is invited to study 
it carefully in collection with the Bible. 

But in this and previous chapters of this book, what 
has been termed the "suggestive shock" relating to ortho- 
dox religion, accompanied by conversion, salification, 
revelations, healing, etc., the line between the natural and 
supernatural is not to be obliterated even though not al- 
ways clearly understood, or defined to human intelligence. 

The investigation of Hypnotism, Clairvoyance and 
Telepathy for scientific purposes is right and proper, and 
will undoubtedly yield wonderful and beneficial results in 
the near future, but if handled by the unsientific and irre- 
ligious, out of which to make merchandise, in the name of 
religion, it becomes empyricism on the one hand and hypoc- 
risy on the other and retards the x^rogress of both science 
and religion. 

It is not to be inferred that the "gifts" alluded to in 
Chapter III, page 35, and termed ''religious phenomena" 
are always and invariably to "follow them that believe." 

They belong to the Church, as a whole, and are dis- 
tributed among the various members of the Body by the 
Holy Spirit "as He will.'" 

Nor are the demonstrations alluded to in Charter V to 
be confounded with what in the science of Hypnotism, is 



142 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

termed "ecstacy," "catalepsy," etc., for wicked men and 
women have in the name of religion, through Spiritualis m y 
Mormonism and Christian Science, accomplished simi lar 
results. Surely the origin of every religious sect is revealed 
in this Scripture. — Rev. 16:13, 14: 

"And I saw thkee unclean spirits like frogs come 

OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE DRAGON, AND OUT OF THE 
MOUTH OF THE BEAST, AND OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE 

prophet. FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF 
DEVILS WORKING MIRACLES, which go forth 
unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, 
to gather them to the battle of that great day of 
God Almighty." 




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CHAPTER XV. 



CONCLUSION— MORTALITY AND 

IMMORTALITY. 

"If a man die shall he live again?' — 
Job. 14:14. 

^^*HE Bible reveals the fact that sentence of death is 
CI passed upon all mankind, for it says "The soul that 
sinneth, it shall die," and "All have sinned and 
come short of the glory of Grod." In spite of the vain 
tenets of Christian Science, there is not a home in the 
land, that has not been invaded by the grim monster Death, 
whom Milton represents as the the hellish progeny of Sin 
and Satan. 

In his ancient allegory Milton represents Satan, com- 
missioned by the Stygian Council, and with purpose of 
heart to be revenged on Grod, on his way from Hell to 
Eden, to tempt our grandparents. 

At the confines of his fiery abode he met the "snaky 
sorceress" who held the portal key, and encountered Death, 
his sen and hers, whom he with disdainful look addresses: 

"Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, 
That darest, though grim and terrible, advance 
Thy miscreated front athwart my way 
To yonder gates'? Through them I mean to pass, 
That be assured, without leave asked of thee: 
Retire, or taste thy folly, and learn by proof. 
Hell-born, not to contend with spirits of Heaven." 

To whom the goblin full of wrath replied: 

"Art thou that traitor angel, art thou he, 

Who first broke peace in Heaven and faith till then 

Unbroken, and in proud rebellious arms 

Drew after him the third part of Heaven's suns. 

Conjured against the Highest: for which both thou 

And they, out-cast from God, are here condemned 

To waste eternal days in woe and pain? 

And reckons't thou thyself with spirits of Heaven, 



MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY. 145 

Hell-doomed, and breath 'st cleiiance here and scorn 
Where I reign king, and, to enrage thee more, 
Thy king and lord? Back to thy punishment, 
False fugitive, and to thy speed acid wings, 
Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue 
Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart 
Strange horrors seize thee, and pangs unfelt before." 

— Paradise Lost. 

A striking representation of what paternal love and 
filial fear is to the inhabitants of Hell. 

How Sin was begotten in Heaven is portrayed in the 
following verses, in which Sin, who held the key to Hell's 
pondrous portal, but who had become so deformed in giv- 
ing birth to Death and other inbred progenies as to be in- 
cognizable to Satan, thus addressed him: 

"Hast thou forgot me then, and do I seem 
Now in thine eye so foul? Once deemed so fair 
In Heaven, when at the assembly, and in sight 
Of all the seraphim with thee combined 
In bold conspiracy against Heaven's King, 
All on a sudden miserable pain 
Surprised thee, dim thine eyes, and dizzy swum 
In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast 
Threw forth, till on the left side opening wide, 
Likest to thee in shape, and countenance bright, 
Then shining heavenly fair, a goddess armed, 
Out of thy head I sprung: amazement seized 
All the host of heaven: back they recoiled afraid 
At first: and called me Sin, and for a sign 
Portentous held me; but, familiar grown, 
I pleased, and with attractive graces won 
The most averse, thee chiefly, who full oft 
Thyself in me thy perfect image viewing 
Becamest enamored ***** 
At last this odious offspring whom thou seest, 
Thine own begotten, breaking violent way, 
Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain 
Distorted, all my nether shape this grew 
Transformed: but he my inbred enemy 
Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart 
Made to destroy: I fled, and cried out 'Death!' 
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed 
From all her caves, and back resounded 'Death!' " 

— Paradise Lost. 



H6 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 

The above extract, while filled with many gems of 
thought is given to illustrate the fact that from time im- 
memorial it has been a well established doctrine that sin 
may originate with any being possessed of a will and a 
conscience, nevertheless the opposite is that with which 
Christian Science is poisoning the minds of the public, 
and is repugnant to reason and common sense. 

"The free will is a self-determining, original cause, it- 
self uncaused, in its volitions. It is a new and responsible 
fountain of causation in the universe."* 

This is an axiom that all the postulates of Christian 
Science cannot overthrow. So, in the Garden when our 
foreparents yielded to temptation, inbred sins sprang up as 
sands on the sea-shore innumerable, and the eternal God 
declared, concerning man, "That every imagination of the 
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." The truth 
of sin originating in the mind of man is also substantiated 
in the Scripture that says, "By one man sin entered into 
the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all 
men, for that all have sinned." 

Sin originated in the mind of Lucifer, son of the morn- 
ing, and she caused endless separation from God and con- 
sequent misery to disobedient angels, and so it was with 
disobedient man. Dalliance with Sin unlocked the portal 
of Hell and constructed a bridge from the infernal regions 
that flooded this earth with the martial hosts of Hell under 
her first born angel, Death (See Jas. 1:15.) 

This brings us back to the original thought. That in 
the midst of life we are surrounded by death. 

"Death rides on every passing breeze. 

And lurks in every flower: 
Each season has its own disease, 

Its peril every hour. 

Our eyes have seen the rosy light 

Of youth's soft cheek decay. 
And fate descend in sudden night 

On manhood's middle day: 



■"Blnney's Oompend." 



MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY. 147 

Turn, mortal turn; thy danger know: 

Where'er thy foot can tread, 
The earth rings hollow from below 

And warns thee by her dead." 

There is none exempt from the grisly terror that 
mounts his pale horse and girds the earth in a moment of 
time. He lays his icy hand on the high as v^ell as the low; 
he is a terror to the rich as well as the poor; and his time 
there is none can tell. His ravages and desolations are 
seen on every hand. Homes are saddened, friends are 
separated, children orphaned, mothers bereaved, and yet 
his maw is not full. 

He brings the shroud, the coffin and the knell. We 
follow him with our precious one to the silent city, and. 
see the loved one lowered to his cold embrace, and hear 
the low dull thud of the clods of the valley, that bury from 
our view the form of our dear one, and nothing to mark 
the spot, but the narrow mound on the grassy hill-side, the 
cold slab, and — memory ! 

Helpless hands are wrung with sorrow, eyes are filled 
with scorching tears, and hearts are bursting w 7 ith unas- 
suaged anguish ! All these are but pitiless appeals to the 
unmoved King of Terrors, and mortality is swallowed up in 
Death ! 

Here ends the hope of the Gnostic "'Scientist." Buried 
in that dark abyss is the fondest hope of the Christless 
therapeutic religionist ! In spite of his pretended demon- 
strations, and vain prating of "no matter," "no sin" and 
"no death," in this solemn moment his better judgment, 
wrought upon by the providence of God, enables him to 
understand, instead of the "aw T ful unreality of matter," it's 
mighty reality as well as that of sin and death, notwith- 
standing the vain tenets of his religion. 

Death and the grave are enshrouded with a chill and a 
gloom, to deep too be pierced by the eye of the materialist, 
but to the Christian they are the gateways "to countries 
elysian." 

Immortality begins where mortality ends. The dark- 
est hour precedes the dawn- and the pall that mantles the 



148 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

tomb is but the morning twilight of an eternal day ! 

Christian hope discerns rays of light on his religious 
horizon, that herald the approach of the resurrection morn, 
when the trump of God shall sound, "and the dead shall 
be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. For this 
corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal 
must put on immortality." 

The eye of faith beholds a resurrected body that excells 
the grandest views of the most sanguine ''Scientist," a 
body "fashioned like unto His glorious body," clothed with 
immortality, eternal life, caught up to elysian fields, when 
the "Lord himslf shall descend from heaven with a shout 
and the voice of the archangel." Glorious thought! Hear 
tlie victorious Christian shout as he ascends to eternal bliss 
with glorified millions ; 

"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy 
victory?" 

"But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory 
through our Lord Jesus Christ," and is able to present us 
"faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding 
joy. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and maj- 
esty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen." 

The Bible does not reveal what God's plan and pur- 
pose with man would have been had he not sinned; but it 
does graciously tell us how death, hell and the grave are 
overcome and how we may attain eternal life and dwell 
with God and the angels in heaven forever. 

Shall we not give heed to it? 

Oh let us, one and all, make it our first business and 
chief aim in this life, to be Christians, and then when we 
hear the voice from heaven saying "Behold I come quickly," 
we may be found in Him and ready to say "Even so Lord 
Jesus, come quickly." 

The doctrine of the Resurrection may not be very con- 
soling to the wicked and unprepared; but to the believer 
it is glorious. By prophetical light, the righteous Daniel, 
looking down through the vistas of time, saw that grand 
awakening and with awful eloquence exclaimed "And many 



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of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, 
some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting shame and 
contempt.'" 




Oh man! remember the words of the Lord God Al- 
mighty: "Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return!" 
But His Son four thousand years later spoke of the resur- 
rection in the following language: "For the hour is com- 
ing, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His 
voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto 
the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto 
the resurrection of damnation."' — John 5:28, 29. 



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Reader, death is inevitable. Are you ready? If not 
will you get ready? The decision is for you to make. 
Cast the die that decides your destiny for eternity. Will 
you follow the Anti-Christ that can only lure you with a 
false hope in this world, and torment you forever in hell; 
or will you accept the reproach of the cross of Christ for 
this life, and then be permitted to enjoy the pleasures for- 
evermore at His right hand? God help you for His blessed 
name's sake. 

Eternity, eternity, eternity ! were the dying shrieks of 
one without hope. Just think of it! Eternal torment!' 
Eternal woe ! 

"In that lone land of deep despair, 

No Sabbath's heavenly light shall rise; 

No God regard your bitter prayer, 
No Saviour call you to the skies." 

See the picture as the poet painted it and ask yourself 
if it is overdrawn. What does God say about it in the 
Bible? Listen ! 

"And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer dark- 
ness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." — 
Mat. 25:30. 

"And these shall go away into everlasting punishment." 
Mat. 25:46. 

"God has traced it with his linger, 

Jesus said it should be so; 
He who lives and dies a sinner, 

Must endure eternal woe." 

Hell and destruction are before the wicked and are 
never full. The inhabitants that ride those fiery billows 
are "tormented day and night forever." It says so. 

Oh sinner, flee to the arms of a sin-pardoning God 
while there is time and opportunity; for if you go to the 
Judgment a sinner, you will cry for the rocks and moun- 
tains to fall on you and "hide you from the face of Him 
that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb." 

Oh, who shall be able to stand in that great day? 

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lation, and wish they never had been born, but then, as 
well as now, the '"nihility of matter" as a doctrine will prove 
untenable. 

Reader, did you ever conscientiously and soberly con- 
sider what annihilation would mean to you? Dr. Redfield 
gives us an idea of what it meant to him when he refused 
to obey God. 

The noted evangelist so felt the awful responsibility 
of preaching the Gospel that he tried, as many have, to 
escape the call by leaving home. 

He went about a hundred miles from all his acquaint- 
ances, but the Spirit followed him. In less than a fort- 
night after his arrival at his new destination he was 
questioned about his duty of preaching, and again he fled. 

This was repeated to the third place, where to shield 
himself, he resolved not to profess religion at all. His own 
narration of the circumstances is affecting: 

"I felt the Holy Spirit leave me as plainly as I ever 
felt the taking off of my coat. Now the funereal pall of 
annihilation settled down over me, and I could see nothing 
hut darkness and desolation. Man and earth seemed 
orphaned. I sought in anatomy, physiology, and philos- 
ophy for testimony to clear this up, and, if possible, give 
me a single fact, to settle my distracted mind. 

"One favorite haunt of mine, during this period, was 
an ancient Indian burying ground. Some of the graves 
were entirely gone, washed away by the high waters of an 
adjoining stream; others were partly gone, the dark sands 
of which gave traces of the bodies which had been laid 
there to rest several hundred years before. A few sea- 
shells, flint arrow-heads and hatchets, and beads, were all 
that bore testimony that these bodies had ever lived. 

"In contemplation of there things my whole soul 
would cry out, while the suffication of death seemed to be 
npon me, 'O God, if there be a God, send me to the hell 
of the Bible, but don't annihilate me.' 

"It seemed to me at such times that I could have died 
a hundred deaths if that would have made the Christian 



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doctrines true, and have run my chances of heaven or 
hell" 

In after years he would say, "Men may talk of anni- 
hilation as a possible fact, and regard the theory as a light 
affair; hut let them stand where I have stood, by the 
graves of the long-forgotten dead, and in imagination pass 
down the vista of coming time, and think; 'with all my 
longing for life, I must lie down in the dust and darkness 
of the tomb, and let the rusty centuries fold over my head, 
till ages have passed and gone, and I sleep on as these 
have slept, who now lie here in a common ruin, forgotten 
and forever gone! Poor nameless dust, who lived, hoped; 
feared ; made as they thought, ample provision for life in 
the spirit land; yet all in vain!' and they will cry out, as I 
have cried, 'O God, spare me at least a bare existence.' 

"No! I would rather know the truth, however unwel- 
come it may be." (Life of Redfield, page 41.) 

Reader, think on these things, and in the light of a 
pure conscience, an open Bible, and human experience, 
decide on which side you wish to hang your immortal in- 
terests; the doctrines of old, time-honored and God honor- 
ed Orthodoxy, or this modern, unsafe, and uncertain 
Christian Science religion — the Anti-Christ in 1900. 

"Reflect, thou hast a soul to save, 

Thy sins how high they mount! 
What are thy hopes beyond the grave? 

How stands that dark account? 

Thy flesh (perhaps thy greatest care) 

Shall into dust consume: 
But ah! destruction stops not there; 

Sin kills beyond the tomb. 

Death enters and there's no defense, 

His time there's none can tell: 
He'll in a moment call thee hence, 

To heaven or down to hell " 




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